[DoughtyOne]

Richard Gere, is that you?

[PGR88]

The Japanese hoped to catch America’s carriers in port, and knock us out of a potential war.

UBL hoped to engage America in a potential war, And in that, he succeeded.

[MeganC]

Until we put an end to Islam there will be no peace with Islam.

Maybe someday civilized people will awaken to this fact.

[loveliberty2]

Perhaps there are great differences between the ideas embraced and openly expressed by the nation's leadership then and now which ought to be examined and contemplated as to their value and impact on the citizenry and its attitudes.

"January 6, 1942 "Our enemies are guided by brutal cynicism, by unholy contempt for the human race. We are inspired by a faith that goes back through all the years to the first chapter of the Book of Genesis: "God created man in His own image." We on our side are striving to be true to that divine heritage. We are fighting, as our fathers have fought, to uphold the doctrine that all men are equal in the sight of God. Those on the other side are striving to destroy this deep belief and to create a world in their own image—a world of tyranny and cruelty and serfdom. That is the conflict that day and night now pervades our lives. No compromise can end that conflict. There never has been—there never can be—successful compromise between good and evil. Only total victory can reward the champions of tolerance, and decency, and freedom, and faith." - President Franklin D. Roosevelt, SOTU, 1942

[marron]

Seven years after 911 Muslim Brotherhood captured the White House and we switched sides in the “war on tterror”.

[Leep]

Most the greatest generation are dead?

[TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed]

Always the opposite of the truth.

[apoliticalone]

Difference between 9-11 and Pearl Harbor. Another thought.

Lets see Japan bombed Pearl Harbor but somehow we were led by neocon pied pipers to believe we needed to fritter away trillions and many lives doing regime change and invading Korea (I mean Iraq). The neocons were too stupid to realize that heavy handed secular rulers in the ME actually served our interest and protected Christians and Jews and other minorities, while holding down Muslim extremists.

[Jim Noble]

a force forged from the remarkable geographic, racial, class, economic, and religious diversity of America

They were virtually all white.

[Savage Beast]

The real difference between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor is in the way the USA reacted to them.

[ro_dreaming]

The main, and most important difference, is that the Pearl Harbor attack was from a government of a country. The 9/11 attacks, while all-but-officially-sanctioned, had no “official” government that could, and would, be retaliated against.

The 9/11 attacks were truly guerrilla, or asynchronous, warfare.

[x]

It sounds like what he is saying is that 9/11 was Pearl Harbor. It was what happened afterwards - how we reacted and what we got into overseas - that was different.

Whether or not aerial bombardment of cities was justified in WWII, it's harder to make the case that because a group of hijackers destroyed the Towers we should have flattened Fallujah.