The majority of Americans won’t be aware of a problem until half a million are vaporized by a nuke... and then only because it interrupted their power supply to their facebook, play station, Xbox or American Idol.
Most fell back into a trance about a week after 911 and haven’t woken up since.
“Hey New York just got nuked...millions of people are dead!”
“Well, they should still get to vote, don’t let republicans disenfranchise them!”
Sadly, you are right.
Had the Japs not attacked Pearl Harbor, the USA would have slept along and although eventually being forced in by some other event, which would by then have made the 1945 wins next to impossible or dragged out much longer.
The USA, maybe being immigrants from all parts, have a flaw of incorrectly viewing those that ‘might’ be the enemy, as not really wanting us harm directly. Live and let live.
Truman, Kennedy and Bush1 pushed us into wars as a precaution, which did not have a ‘flash point’ directly against the USA. Look how Korea, Viet Nam and Iraq turned out, not so well with our “live and let live” culture.
Human nature tends to not see incrementalism for what it really is. Incrementalism is an underhanded manipulation and any group that uses that tactic is inherently evil and treasonous.