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Another “Day of Infamy”?

Today is the 71st anniversary of the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, the HQ of America’s pacific fleet. The attacking Japanese admiral noted at the time that, although Japan had won that battle, ‘a sleeping giant’ had been awakened.

President FDR called it “a day of infamy.”

The relevant question for our time is, given the moral relativism dominating American culture, would Americans both see domestic attacks as infamous, and would they arouse to anger and revenge, as a sleeping giant?

I’m afraid most of America’s leaders would engage in public self-flagellation, proclaiming their guilt in America’s supposed crimes.