Commentary Dec. 7, 1941. “A date which will live in infamy,” President Franklin D. Roosevelt called it. The attack’s 80th anniversary is this month. Infamy. Webster’s Dictionary defines infamy as: “evil reputation brought about by something grossly criminal, shocking, or brutal.” From the U.S. perspective, the Japanese 1941 sneak attack on Pearl Harbor definitely fits that definition. The Japanese elites—other than Adm. Isoruku Yamamoto—thought the sneak attack would do two things. The semi-sane bean counters thought it would destroy America’s Pacific Ocean fleet and make retribution (counterattack on Japan) impossible, or at least improbable. The total whack-job, imperial-emperor virtue-signaling Tokyo elites thought the attack would utterly frighten feckless, libertine, paper-tiger American cowards into retreating from Asia and submitting to Japanese racialist-globalist superiority. Back to Pearl. The brainy Yamamoto, who designed the tactical success at Pearl Harbor? The gifted strategist in him may not have said “don’t awaken the sleeping giant”—giant …
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