Famous quotes from Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
"In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.""You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass."
"I fear all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." [upon learning of the success of the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor]
"I fear all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." [upon learning of the success FAILURE of the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor]
The Pearl Harbor raid was a failure, in the same sense the 9/11 attack was a failure.
The Japanese failed to get our carriers, thereby failing their major mission goal.
The møøselimbs did even worse. They failed in all three of their goals:
Take down our ecconomy (WTC)
Disable our millitary (Pentagon)
Decapitate our government (Flt93)
There are reports that there were hijackers on several more flights who didn't even get a chance to play. We out manuvered them when we grounded all flights.
Even where they did manage to draw blood it was far less than they planned. The WTC attack was supposed to kill 50,000, for example.