Dec 7, 1941

From the www.unionleader.com:

Today is the 67th anniversary of the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. The anniversary may seem remote, but it comes just days after a national commission on the prevention of terrorism issued a chilling report on the likelihood of a new attack on America.

With Europe aflame and Japan already slicing up China and threatening more mayhem in the Far East, would a sleepy America have paid more attention and been better prepared had a U.S. commission warned of a Pearl Harbor-like attack back in the late 1930s?

We doubt it. There were in fact warnings and predictions of Japanese aggression but they fell largely on the deaf ears of an isolated America more intent on its own economic problems.

Today, is it any different? Even with the modern-day Pearl Harbor of Sept. 11, 2001, as a stark example, and with the repeated Islamic extremist warnings and attacks (see India two weeks ago), much of America seemed to yawn at the headline, carried in our own daily paper, "Biological weapons attack is likely in next 5 years.''

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