Just so it's not forgotten...

Today marks the 78th anniversary of a craven sneak attack by a foreign power on a US Navy installation...It was perpetrated by a group who had long since made public their intentions to dominate those whom they deemed as less than human and too weak to resist...In their cowardice, they chose to strike on a day of traditional religious observance, and without a formal declaration of war...Not satisfied with the incremental advances they had made on weaker nations known to be internally divided, and unable to mount a unified defense, they chose to widen their attack with consolidated strikes against the multiple outlying targets of several sovereign nations...In doing so the assailants, and those who pulled the strings of their puppets, thought to instill such disorganized fear among their victims that retaliation would come far too late to prevent the establishment of a new, and wider power base...

Yesterday another attack was implemented by another foreign power against another US Navy base, another in a series of incremental assaults...Again this one was planned as part of a cumulative series of aggressions designed with one goal in mind - the reduction of the American way of life in which many band together from many cultures under one flag to enjoy a life of freedom and liberty...In the shade of that flag, Americans are able to clearly distinguish the other populations of the world to whom distinct, precise views of free enterprise is hidden behind curtains lowered before their eyes by those desperate to remain in power...The wish to share the freedom of democracy is seen by the tyrants who wish to retain their power, whether in the guise of theology, various forms of socialism, outright slavery or any other ideology, as the main threat to their retention of that power...

The strikes against America since WWII have come from many directions and in many guises...But our myriad of enemies, all hungry to either gain or retain power, have learned from their own studies that military might alone will not topple our nation, not when directed from a distinct and recognizable source such as a sovereign nation with definable borders...The powerful now pull their strings from behind the shadows of hatred with the assistance of those who fancy themselves as journalists, political "leaders," business people, clergy and most important of all, the gullible and disillusioned idealists who imagine they are paving the road toward a better world...

But they are all drawn by the same magnet of power and wealth, and all follow the same path of destruction as their predecessors in history...The only real question remaining is how many more times can history be repeated before either the lesson is learned, or no one is left to learn?...

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