[rktman]

What if we came together for a couple years?

[tomkat]

What if we came together for a couple years?

Perhaps as a result of massive geologic and/or weather event or an overt military attack by a large power.
Perhaps.

Otherwise, I fear we're headed for another 1860.
Not if, but when.

[irishjuggler]

“The Japanese began the war from the air at Pearl Harbor. They have been repaid many fold.” - Harry S. Truman, August 6, 1945.

[Telepathic Intruder]

America came together for a few weeks after 9/11, until liberals started saying that we deserved it, or Bush did it, or Israel did it, or anything other than we were attacked unjustly by Muslim fanatics.

[longfellow]

I wore my 911 shirt today. I wasn’t around for Pearl Harbor.

[robowombat]

I was an unimportant munchkin at 9-11 but was positioned to see how a number of the ‘great and good’ with stars on their shoulders in the Army reacted. My attitude was akin to Dec 7, make Arabic the most spoken language in hell. The heirarchs I got to see were not into that. Many were almost demoralized not full of fury. Then after a few days the GO’s began panicking worried that the stupid sh*t they all hurried to implement in Clintontime might come back to bite them if GB did what FDR did to those in command at Pearl. Then commenced a huge CYA activity that went as far in the other direction as had been traveled to please Billy Jeff that the Army was economizing. Finally while the hierarchs may not have focused their wrath on the turban turners they did on their underlings. It was a very unpleasant time as we were made clearly to feel us munchkins were in some way responsible for 9-11. Right then I started to have a bad feeling and thought the GWOT was going to be the Global F Up.

[Bonemaker]

“What if we came together for a couple years? “

We did after 9/11...for a couple weeks.

[SuperLuminal]

I was 8-years old and still remember anger expressed by my family... My Dad, father of two kids, joined the Marines 4-months later to avoid being drafted into the Navy... He hated being on or in boats...

[colorado tanker]

Obama and the Fauxcohantas Democrats would blame FDR’s overly harsh sanctions for driving the Japanese to do it. They would demand “diplomacy” and “negotiations” instead of war. They’d probably label him a racist along the way. I mean, he didn’t ask for a declaration of war against the white Germans, did he, only the Asians?

[pepsi_junkie]

If it happened today, the left would immediately say we brought it on ourselves and be shouted down by the majority of Americans who actually love this country. The left would quiet down, simmer, and wait for their opportunity to undermine everything we do, advance the causes of the enemy, and steal power.

I say this because this is exactly how it played out starting on 9/12/01.

[Paul R.]

Other discussions aside, this is a good day to remember those lost, @ Pearl Harbor and the following months and years. Prayers are in order, too.

[Noamie]

One of the reasons Japan did it was because that generation of fighting aged American men were thought of as lazy, oversexed and immature.

Turns out, they just needed purpose.

What is true before will always be true forever.