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Forgetting Pearl Harbor and Pandering to Terrorists
By Mary Mostert (12/08/05)
On December 6, 2005, Howard Dean, Chairman of the Democratic Party and a presidential hopeful perhaps for 2008, said in a San Antonio radio show: "The idea that we're going to win the war in Iraq is just plain wrong."
This was one day before the 64th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Memories immediately began coming back. I was 12 years old and alone the kitchen of our small apartment in where the radio was when the program was interrupted and it was announced that Japanese airplanes had bombed Pearl Harbor. I listened for a couple of minutes and went into the living room and asked my mother, “Where’s Pearl Harbor?”
My mother gave me a puzzled look and replied, “It’s in Hawaii. Why?” I answered, “Japanese airplanes just bombed it.”
My mother burst into tears, which was very unlike her. She knew instantly what it meant. My older brothers would be going to war. However, in spite of her tears, she let all of us children know that, like the Spartan mothers of ancient Greece, she would prefer her sons to return dead and on their shields rather than without their swords and shields because they surrendered. Both of my brothers volunteered to join the Air Force or the Navy when they reached the age of 17. Both served honorably and Jack, the older brother, who was at the port of embarkation in preparation of the invasion of Japan, was saved from carrying out his assignment by the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was those 2 bombs that caused the Japanese to surrender, thereby saving the lives of millions of Japanese and Americans who would have died in an invasion of Japan.
By the time the war was over, I was graduating from high school and the words “Remember Pearl Harbor!” that galvanized the American people to action, sacrifice, determination and victory, in spite of our losing all the first battles of the war, were indelibly imprinted on my brain.
There are not many of us left these days who do actually REMEMBER the bombing of Pearl Harbor 64 years ago. In fact, based on the cowardly comments made by people like Howard Dean, John Kerry and, yes, Congressman John Murtha that we are being deluged with, it seems to me we can’t even remember the bombing of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon which was 4 years ago. For those who have already forgotten that incident, almost twice as many Americans died on September 11, 2001 than died at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
The attacks of 9-11 followed years of other sneak attacks on America and Americans:
-The first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center itself and the attempt by Iraq’s Intelligence Service to assassinate former President H.W. Bush in 1993,
-The killing of 19 American servicemen and wounding of 385 more in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia in 1996
-The bombing of American Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar-es-Salem, Tanzania in 1998
-The kidnapping of 33 UN representatives, including an American, near Occra Hills, Sierra Leone and the kidnapping of 160 people, including six Americans, in Colombia by armed ELN terrorists in 1999
-The bombing of the U.S.S. Cole that killed 17 American sailors and injured 39 in 2000
In spite of this very recent history, we now have the dominant media and the leadership of the Democrat party telling us we need to give up, pander to terrorists, let them do their thing and bring our troops home because, according to people like Howard Dean and Congressman Murtha, we can’t “win?” What in the world is Murtha and Dean’s definition of the word “win?” In Afghanistan and Iraq more than 50 million people now have a chance to live in freedom and the random slaughter of American civilians has been almost totally stopped. If that isn’t a “win” what IS it?
If they are talking about a total absence of violence, perhaps we should start by ending or greatly reducing America’s death rates due to crime and senseless automobile accidents. We should be giving thanks that only 2000 soldiers have died in the past 4 years in Afghanistan and Iraq. Those 2000 deaths average out to approximately 500 deaths a year, or fewer than 2 deaths per day to defend America while freeing millions. Compared with the 115 people per day that die in senseless Automobile accidents in America, or the nearly 40 people per day that are criminally murdered daily in America, frankly I don’t understand the hand-wringing comments we are getting from the cut and run crowd.
In the 1940s, in a population approximately half that of America’s population today, there were over a million casualties: 407,316 soldiers died and 607,846 American soldiers were wounded. The worldwide death rate of soldiers and civilians in World War II was over 50 million. A statistically comparable figure for the War on Terror would be a casualty rate of American soldiers dead and wounded of 2,000,000 – not 2,000.
And, what were we fighting for in World War II? We didn’t even KNOW, until the war was over and our troops rolled in to free the remaining survivors of the Nazi Concentration Camps how many people Hitler had killed. However, what we DID know was that our country was attacked by the Japanese (not the Germans), we were in danger and that we all needed to pull together to save it, even if it meant fighting the Germans who were not the ones who attacked us.
Somehow, that has never sunk in for many people about the War on Terror. Is this merely simple stupidity, or is it more sinister, like a desire to help the terrorists destroy us? Or, perhaps, do the Democrats believe that by pandering to terrorists they can regain control of Congress in 2006 and the White House in 2008?
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Mary was involved in politics before she was old enough to vote and was writing articles for national magazines at the age of nineteen. She organized one of the first interracial youth groups in Memphis, Tennessee in the 1940s as a teenager, and was involved nationally and internationally in the civil rights movement and the peace movement.
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