December 7th - A Day of Infamy

from the always excellent Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler bq. On this the 62nd anniversary of the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, I want you to forget, for once, about the attack itself. bq. Before you proceed to call for a lynch mob and make for the Imperial Palace, however, I'd like to qualify my outrageous statement a bit. bq. I do NOT want you to forget all of the brave souls that died that day and I do NOT want you to forget the righteous anger that the cowardly attack aroused in all true Americans back then. bq. What I WANT you to do is to not leave it at that. bq. When you remember 12/7/41, I want you to remember what we did to the bastards that attacked us. I want you to remember the resolve, determination and sacrifices in the years that followed, because THOSE were the factors that gave us victory. bq. Anger itself is worthless. Anger transformed into action, on the other hand, isn't. bq. Our grandparents' generation transformed their anger into action, and they STUCK WITH IT. bq. THEY didn't allow their resolve to be watered down by defeatism, THEY didn't throw the towel in the ring at the sight of the first setback, and THEY sure as Hell didn't get all pissed off, then sat down to ponder if it was "all their own fault". bq. THEY didn't show up for a candle-lit vigil in the week after Dec. 7th, only to go home the next day to resume whatever they were doing on Dec. 6th, thinking that "they'd done their bit". bq. They stuck with it, through 4 long years of struggle, staring the Devil in the eye, celebrating their victories and dealing with the defeats, never letting go of the throat of the monster until the monster was dead, shunning no sacrifice and, ultimately, doing whatever it took to win, no holds barred. bq. We need to emulate that now. We've been doing "OK" so far, but that isn't good enough. That alone won't win the war. We can continue to "play at war" for a long time, this is true, we certainly have the strength and resources for it, but if we want to WIN it, the gloves have GOT to come off. bq. Islamofascism must not be merely "defeated", it must be vanquished, eradicated, wiped out, exterminated, because anything less than that will only serve to drag the war out indefinitely. bq. They must be shocked and awed by our resolve the way that Tojo had his shit-filled britches scared off of his scrawny legs in '45, in a way that will leave no doubts in their diseased, murderous minds that not only do we have the MEANS to wipe them permanently off the face of the Earth, should we feel that it is necessary, we also have the WILL to DO SO. Emporer Misha 1st is usually a very good writer but with this short essay, he blows the top off other comments regarding this day. Read the rest of the article, you will be glad you did...