We’ll teach those Japanese not to attack us. Let’s invade Kamchatka.
Bob Herbert in the NY Times weighs in today with a good idea, one that I advocated obliquely just yesterday: that we reinstitute the draft.
After all, if this war is really in the national interest, we should all have to fight it, no? I can hardly wait to see the sons and daughters of Bush, Cheney (oops, she can’t go because she’s a lesbian) and members of Congress in uniform. Bet we’d have the appropriations for body armor and armored Humvees then, don’t you think?
Contributing to my general malaise yesterday was making the mistake of not changing the radio channel immediately when I heard Bush talking about winning in Iraq. What really gassed me was when he declared that more Americans were killed on 9/11 than were killed at Pearl Harbor, and this was somehow justification for the Iraq war.
Here’s some news for you, George. On December 8, 1941 FDR did not start blaming any country other than Japan…(ok, maybe Germany.) And both of them really did have weapons of mass destruction.
One other observation: Japan surrendered 1365 days after Pearl Harbor. Tojo was under arrest (and would later be executed) and Hitler had been dead for four months. It has, as of yesterday, been 1548 days since 9/11/2001, and the guy behind the attack is still running around loose blowing up London, Madrid, Bali, etc.
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