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2005–12–07

Pearl Harbor Day. The day that will (and has) lived in infamy. However, it is difficult not to compare Dec 7^th to 9/11. I’ve read several headlines today that make such comparisons and rightfully so.

Both attacks were against the American people and there were a huge number of lives lost in each attack. However, on Dec 7^th, the Japanese attack—in large part—military targets, whereas the 9/11 attack was mostly civilian targets given the exception for those who would object that the Pentagon might be recognized as a military target.

However one may view each attack, the resulting effect afterwards can be seen similar. How you may ask? Pearl Harbor launched the American people into the Second World War. The U.S. didnt just go to war with Japan but with Germany also. We sent American Soldiers to Europe, and the rest as they say, is history. Much like the Second World War, today we fight a global war on terror.

The attack on 9/11 sent our Soldiers into Afghanistan, and then onward to Iraq. If you understand the threat of terrorism, then you would understand the U.S. liberation of Iraq. However, there are those Politicians that feel we should have stopped at Afghanistan. These same politicians would have just gone to war with Japan and left Europe to Germany. History now tells us that entering the whole war in 1942 was the right thing to do. I believe entering the whole war on terror today, is the right thing to do.

As for today, lets remember Pearl Harbor Day. For today we mourn for those whom lives were lost on Dec 7^th. But we are still a country at war, with an enemy that is not as considerate as the enemy of the past. The enemy Japan was interested in material objects, however, the enemy today is interested in ideologycivilians are the targets of this ideology.