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Last Tuesday’s bombings have been compared to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II. Indeed, the resemblance is uncanny. Both tragedies exposed the vulnerability of a supposed superpower. Both were followed by hate crimes toward innocent American citizens of a particular ethnic descent. After Pearl Harbor, 110,000 innocent Japanese-Americans were sent to internment camps, imprisoned because they were suspected of being “saboteurs” and “spies...
...Dorfmans view, the recent attack against the United States, in which thousands have disappeared, recalls an attack supported by the United States against Chile, in which thousands also disappeared. This latter attack is hardly as infamous, at least for most Americans, as the attack on Pearl Harbor, the point of comparison for most media polls. Other attacks, other comparisons, nonetheless obtain. A retired firefighter, I believe, and whose name unfortunately I cannot remember, reminded viewers on one of the networks that groups of Americans danced in the streets upon hearing of the bombing of Hiroshima. The attacks, and comparisons...
Congress and the States should also promptly increase the penalties for terrorists and the people who harbor them. As our law is currently written, the state penalties for harboring, assisting or hiding terrorists are comparatively light. Adjusting the magnitude of the penalty to the magnitude of the act is the only just thing to do. Congress and the states should also remove all statutes of limitations that apply to serious acts of terrorism so that the United States may prosecute terrorists wherever and whenever they are found...
...December 7, 1941, the Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor shattered the American citizen’s sense of security. While high ranking government officials may have been cognizant of an eminent attack, civilians found themselves caught completely unaware of such a direct assault on their everyday lives. It would be unfathomable to survivors that 60 years later, the most tragic surprise attack of their generation would become the basis of a gaudy Hollywood Blockbuster, let alone one that producers would have re-edited as not to offend Japanese ticket-buyers. So how long before Ben Affleck Jr. gets...
Historical analogies are a ticklish business, especially when they are proposed while a fine, cruel dust still blankets the desolation of Lower Manhattan. So I will not compare the events of last Tuesday to Pearl Harbor, or to the sinking of the Lusitania, or the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in Sarejevo, or any of the other terrible “turning points” in the long and bloody 20th century...