Re-learning hard lessons.
The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor because they thought they could get away with it. That calculation came perilously close to being correct.
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What about the lessons of this event, Mr. President?
President Obama is visiting Hiroshima, Japan just weeks shy of the 71st anniversary of the U.S. dropping of the atomic bomb. He has no plans, however, to mark the 75th anniversary of the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.
If you want peace, prepare for war.
The United States did not seek the role of defender of world peace. We were doomed to it by the events of the mid 20th century.