[Alberta's Child]

For a refreshing source of optimism, we should all do some research and see what Admiral Yamamoto had to say about the United States when he and his superiors in the Japanese government were discussing the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

[Centurion2000]

For a refreshing source of optimism, we should all do some research and see what Admiral Yamamoto had to say about the United States when he and his superiors in the Japanese government were discussing the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

Japan pissed off the US ---> Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Islamics piss us off (one can hope for) ----> same results on Mecca / Medina

[texasbluebell]

For a refreshing source of optimism, we should all do some research and see what Admiral Yamamoto had to say about the United States when he and his superiors in the Japanese government were discussing the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

Something about a hornet's nest?

[Vic3O3]

You mean the one about "I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant..."? IMHO, that quote (if that's the one you meant) is better applied to the 9/11 attacks.