The attack on Pearl Harbor
Visiting Pearl Harbor was very sobering -- to think of all of these lives lost in what was an
unexpected military attack. About 3,000 lives lost with 57 civilian lives lost as well.
Since I had been there last, the
Mighty Mo had been moved to drydock but the
Pacific Aviation Museum had been opened and that was a treat -- the quality of Restoration was top notch.
It is interesting to think about the difference between now and sixty years ago.
Sixty years ago, we were in a deep recession and suffered a surprise attack that killed about 3,000 military personnel. We acted with resolve, pulled ourselves out of the depression, built up a huge manufacturing base and won both the War with Japan and the War with Germany. After Armistice was signed, we went into these Nations and, while preserving the National heritage and culture, we rebuilt their economies and got them back on their feet again.
Now, in the beginnings of a modest recession, we were attacked by a group of terrorists who murdered about 3,000 civilian personnel and we react with about six months of resolve and then we start to dither.
Our economy continues to tank, we are a laughingstock to other nations, the terrorists regroup and attack again and again and our own Government denies us the resolve to get intelligence and act on it. We are treating an act of terrorism by a foreign national as a civil crime and feeding these mokes through the court system instead of our Military Justice system.
That last idiot purchased a one-way ticket with cash, did not check any luggage (but told Airline officials that he was going to Detroit for two weeks), his own Father warned the US Embassy,
he was noticed by Britain's own MI5 which alerted the USA a
year ago -- this did not raise any flags with Homeland Security?
If we treated this case for what it is, again, an act of terror by a foreign national, the military could have held his head under water for 30 seconds or so and we could have gotten the goods on this pigfuckers network. A quick fair tribunal and either a firing squad or a lifetime of luxury at Gitmo.
Instead, we read him his Miranda rights and lawyered him up on our dime. The only justice is that
he successfully neutered himself.
Those
72 raisins of
exceptional purity are going to be pretty useless to him now...
Posted by DaveH at January 5, 2010 4:25 PM