Today is December 7th, the 66th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
At dawn on Sunday, December 7, 1941, naval aviation forces of the Empire of Japan attacked the United States Pacific Fleet center at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and other military targets. The goal of this attack was to sufficiently cripple the US Fleet so that Japan could then attack and capture the Phillipines and Indo-China and so secure access to the raw materials needed to maintain its position as a global military and economic power. This would enable Japan to further extend the empire to include Australia, New Zealand, and India (the ultimate boundaries planned for the so-called “Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere”). The prevailing belief within the Japanese military and political establishment was that eventually, with the then expected German defeat of Great Britain and Soviet Russia, the United States’ non-involvement in the European war, and Japan’s control of the Pacific, that the world power structure would stabilize into three major spheres of influence:
1. The Empire of Japan controlling East, Southeast, and South Asia and the entire Pacific Ocean.
2. The combined powers of Germany and Italy controlling Great Britain, all of Europe, Western and central Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.
3. The United States, controlling North and South America.
But their cowardly attack simply awakened a sleeping giant and instilled in us a terrible resolve. That’s the same mistake Osama and his ilk made on 9/11.
Or was it a mistake after all?
Stop whatever it is that you’re doing and read joe-6-pack’s great treatise on what would leading Democrats, and the mainstream media, have to say if they were alive and kicking on December 7, 1941. Some snippets:
Howard Dean would have said it would take 5 years to rebuild our navy before we could confront Japan, so we better pull back our forces from Hawaii to the mainland.
John Kerry would have said that Japan was not responsible for the Bataan Death March. If we had not been occupying the Philippines, there would have been no need for the Death March.
Nancy Pelosi would have worried about the civilians killed during the Jimmy Doolittle air raid on Tokyo.
Ted Kennedy would have said that President Roosevelt knew about the threat, but he ignored it so his defense contractor buddies would make money off the war.
Al Gore would have gone into his “black preacher” persona and hollered that Germany did not attack us at Pearl Harbor, rather, President Roosevelt attacked Germany to distract from the failures in the Pacific war theatre.
Jimmy Carter would have explained that Mr. Hitler was simply trying to unify Europe under a single flag and that we should have signed a peace treaty instead of invading Normandy.
The War on Terror is just as serious as WWII, though it is vastly different. The War on Terror is WWIII, a war that pits civilized peoples against those that would conquer the planet through sharia.
The Japanese success at Pearl Harbor with trivial losses to themselves can be blamed on the inability of the US political, diplomatic, and military establishments to recognize the capabilities of Japan and the weaknesses in US defense planning as well. The very same could be said of the US on 9/10/2001. The only difference between these eras will be the strength of the US civilian resolve.
The sneak attack against Hawaii brought an immediate reaction of unprecedented unity from the American people. Families from every class sent their sons and daughters to war, women joined the industrial work force, and no one was untouched by the effort to bring all of the US resources to bear upon the war effort. Today huge numbers of people would rather spend their efforts watching “Desperate Housewives” and not be bothered with an evil that has been actively attacking the US for the last 20 years and has publically stated that they will continue to do so.
Failure was not an option in WWII nor it is now - except for the Left and their Apologists. Doesn’t the Left understand that sharia is completely contrary to the Left’s dream of worldwide Socialism? It’s going to be bad enough rescuing France 20 years from now after becomming the first Eurabian theocratic state - it’s going to be doubly bad to have to rescue Pelosi from a beheading in the People’s Kingdom of San Francisco.
