My takeaway from Pearl Harbor... Don’t trust a socialist to be president.
... a number of Japan's most accomplished officers and diplomats had visited or studied in the U.S. and had developed contempt for American popular culture ...
Many Japanese strategists had assumed that the U.S. never again would wish to endure a world war, and would prefer to negotiate rather than fight to the finish.
The road to Hiroshima and the massive loss of life in the Pacific was paved by unprovoked Japanese aggression at Pearl Harbor. Americans and their president should remember the lessons of that surprise attack 75 years ago this year.