Posted on 12/08/2008 7:15:20 PM PST by Righting
The evil is called Islamism or Islamofascism
A Date that will live in Infamy By Alan Caruba Sunday, December 7, 2008
December 7, 1941, “A date that will live infamy” is a fading memory for those alive at the time and most certainly for those born since that day. For most Americans I suspect it is just a date they may have read about in a high school history book or seen dramatized in documentaries or films.
It was, if you are still trying to recall its significance, the day the Empire of Japan attacked the U.S. fleet in Pearl Harbor. It was the date that Franklin Delano Roosevelt referred to in his speech to Congress calling for a Declaration of War against, not only Japan, but the Nazi regime and its Axis partner, Italy. It was the date when the term World War took on a whole new meaning beyond the WWI trenches in France.
In Hawaii, when I rode out to visit the USS Arizona memorial in Pearl Harbor, the thing I noticed was that I was sharing the ferry with dozens of Japanese tourists. It had never occurred to me that it was, of course, part of their history as well. I recall their pausing before the wall with the names of the sailors still entombed below to offer prayers for them. That is what peace is all about.
The cliché is that those who do not learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them. It is a cliché because it is true.
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Right on all counts.
But I'm not holding my breath.
Imagine that, I have seen of of the leftysts columnists blaming India for the latest Islamic massacre in Mumbai... because they treat the Muslims bad.
Two days ago, Obama’s ‘Rev’ Wright preached to his squirmy congregation that Dec 7 was the day marking the anniversary of the US killed ‘’innocent civilians’’ in the dropping of the ‘’atom bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki’’.
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