Celtic Guardian
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Today is December 7th, the 65th anniverasry 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?
If we could transport modern day mainstream media, Leftist pundits, and Democrat politicians/hacks back to the first few months after Pearl Harbor, what might they have been saying? Perhaps it might have been something like this ...
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.
Michael Moore would have made a movie that would have told us why our aircraft carriers were not at Pearl Harbor. They were busy launching the airplanes, painted like Japanese fighters and bombers, that attacked Pearl Harbor.
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.
Jesse Jackson would have said that we attacked German forces in Africa because we wanted the natural resources of Africa and that we just wanted the Germans out of there so we could have all of the gold, diamonds,...
Ward Churchill would have said that we should not help the British, because the British were responsible for most of the 17th and 18th century immigrants that stole the land from the Indians.
Louis Farrakan would have blamed the Jews for provoking Germany into attacking France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Britain,...
While we were fighting the Battle of Midway, Senate hearings on the Pearl Harbor attack would have demanded the presence of Admiral Nimitz and Rear Admirals Spruance and Fletcher, to explain the lack of preparation at Pearl Harbor.
Barbara Boxer would have been demanding a Senate investigation as to why the Doolittle bombers ran out of fuel and had to crash-land after bombing Tokyo.
Editorial cartoonists would regularly have made fun of President Roosevelt being in a wheelchair, by telling him to "stand tall against the enemy".
Pat Buchanan would have been hollering that we shouldn't be helping the Soviets because they were Communists.
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.
Failure was not an option in WWII nor it is now - except for the Left and their Apologists.
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