<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: second-wave attacks</title></head><body> <div>Chip Berlet wrote:</div> <blockquote type="cite" cite> <blockquote type="cite" cite><br> Shane, you must admit that few historians actually believe that Pearl Harbor<br> is the equivalent of the Reichstag Fire. This is, however, a popular theory</blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite>among the hard right Patriot and militia movements....</blockquote> </blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>I'm surprised that any<i> historian</i> would believe such a thing, unless it was</div> <div>a<i> historian(sic)</i> acting as a Nazi apologist.  It was the Nazis who burned</div> <div>the Reichstag, but it was the Japanese who bombed Pearl Harbor.  What</div> <div>Roosevelt and Bush have in common, as a matter now of public knowledge,</div> <div>is that both, faced with clear indications of a likely attack, took no</div> <div>action that might prevent that attack--<i>nonfeasance in office.</i>  But, to</div> <div>Roosevelt's "credit," his [in]action had an arguably justified political</div> <div>purpose--forcing US entry into the war at the moment when Hitler's</div> <div>army stood within sight of the Kremlin--and he also made sure that</div> <div>the only essential part of the Pacific Fleet, the aircraft carrriers, were</div> <div>at sea instead of at their moorings.  Bush's nonfeasance comported</div> <div>no damage limitations, his motivations  had no color of public</div> <div>interest, and, unlike the Republicans in wartime, the Democrats in</div> <div>peacetime adopted a version of<i> union sacrée</i> that ruled out</div> <div>any public congessional investigation.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Shane Mage<br> <br> "Thunderbolt steers all things."         <span ></span >           <span ></span >           <span ></span >           <span ></span >           <span ></span>    <br> </div> <div>Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64</div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> </body> </html>