[inkling]

You don't say...

[1066AD]

Yamamoto himself was somewhat ambivalent about it "I fear we've awakened a sleeping giant" or something like that.

[SteveMcKing]

What's Japanese for "DUH"?

[COEXERJ145]

It was a great tactical victory for the Japanese.

However, it was also a strategic disaster for the Japanese.

When they attacked Pearl Harbor, they ensured that the Pacific War would be a war to the death and it culminated in the use of the atomic bombs.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were NOT mistakes.

[2111USMC]

Funny, my hindsight is always "20/20" too.

[redpoll]

One of the funniest headlines in many days. Ya think?

[BradyLS]

It'd be a pleasant change to hear the Islamofascists admit that what they're doing is terrible mistake. Probably there are plenty saying it right now, but the MSM would never report it.

[truemiester]

The first clue they had that it was a mistake was the bright light over Hiroshima.

[BagelFace]

Will an Iranian soldier one day say that building the bomb and attacking Israel was a terrible mistake? WWII seems like a piece of cake suddenly.

[VOA]

But more than 60 years later, it has turned into a place where he
can nurture ties with American friends who had once been his foes.

My general understanding is that pilots like this had to suffer
social stigma in Japan after WWII was ended.
But that they've been shocked at how kindly they've been received
as guests at airshows in the USA.

Just like most of the Germans held as POWs in the USA...after the
war they finally started to realize attacking the USA was not
a smart thing to do (because we can be very nice and when needed, very tough).

[Termite_Commander]

No kidding.

[Proud2BeRight]

He's probably a spokesman for Toileta or Hon-Duh who realize that their invasion was possibly slowed by using the war option.

[mad_as_he$$]

Yes it was a mistake. But the mistake was not launching the third wave and missing the carriers. If they had gotten the carriers the war would have been at least a year longer in the Pacific.

Remember Pearl Harbor!

[Old Sarge]

What's Japanese for "D'oh!"

[nightdriver]

"Pearl Harbor was a place where he headed to risk his life to defend his country."

I'm sorry, I refuse to grant Miya Tanaka's premise that he was "defending his country."

It was a dastardly and unprovoked attack, no matter that FDR was thumbing his nose at them.

[saquin]

Pearl Harbor a mistake: Japanese vet

Gee, ya think?

[krb]

One wonders if the outcome of WWII had been different if he would still feel the same way.

Well, this one wonders at any rate :-)

[A.A. Cunningham]

Zenji Abe poses in front of a bomber
in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, in
late December 1941, after returning
from the Pearl Harbor attack.

Iwakuni is now home to Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni. To the victor goes the spoils.

[Patriot Hooligan]

"History - in every century, records an act that lives forevermore. We'll recall - as in to line we fall, the thing that happened on Hawaii's shore." Unknown (to me)

"...So, we've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion but what's important--why the Pilgrims came here, who Jimmy Doolittle was, and what those 30 seconds over Tokyo meant." President Ronald Reagan farewell speech in 1989

"Give me a fast ship for I intend to go in harms way."
John Paul Jones

"For a time, the Flying Tigers provided the only victories against the Japanese anywhere in the Far East... This handful of men had shown that the Japanese were not invincible." - Duane Schultz, author of The Maverick War

"Before we're through with them, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell.!
Admiral Halsey - December 1941

"Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning."
Colonel David M. Shoup - (Tarawa) - 21st November 1943

This is a fight between a free world and a slave world. - Vice President Henry A. Wallace

"It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it will not be fought on U.S. soil." - Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet

"Americans do not surrender." General George S. Patton

I'd like to thank all the veterans and their families both past and present for the FREEDOM My family and I continue to enjoy.

"I consider it no sacrifice to die for my country. In my mind, we came here to thank God that men like these have lived rather than to regret that they have died." General George S. Patton