> > 3. The very name "Pearl Harbor," for all but the ignorant,
>> is virtually synonymous with "a provoked and expected
>> attack, permitted to happen for the purpose of shocking
>> the American public into enthusiastic support for a war
>> that it had previously refused to accept."
>>
>
>This is a novel and dubious definition for "Pearl Harbor," unless
>you spend your time reading right-wing conspiracy tracts. I have
>seen this type of rhetoric primarily in the tomes from the Liberty
>Lobby booklist and its newspaper The Spotlight. Often this thesis
Actually, I thought Alex "Ace" Cockburn himself believed in the conspiracy theory of Pearl Harbor. Am I remembering wrong?
Doug