The New York Times on World War II - December 30, 1941: As the nation continues to reel in the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor it is becoming clear that the Roosevelt administration was utterly unprepared for a tragedy that left most of the Pacific fleet on the bottom of Pearl Harbor. At the very least, this was a massive failure of our intelligence agencies, and at worst, an indictment of an administration asleep at the switch. It is time for President Roosevelt to appoint a commission to investigate the reasons for his failure to anticipate the...