Posted by
Sam Heath on Friday, September 08, 2006 11:51:22 AM
One of the more melancholy tasks I had to undertake here of late was making sure the Pearl Harbor material my mother had given into my keeping not long before she passed away was placed in the proper hands in order to assure it being available to serious students for historical study. Having been in Pearl Harbor when it was attacked, a shell exploding in her kitchen injuring her, my mother had an intense interest in all the events surrounding that Day of Infamy and kept quite an extensive scrapbook of that period in our history.
For the historian nothing takes the place of primary source material; all else is educated guesswork. And being a scholar of history I knew the importance of my mother’s memorabilia from that era and the responsibility I had in making sure it was made available for others doing historical research into that period of time. Even the Pearl Harbor first anniversary edition of the Los Angeles Examiner my mother had saved had great historical value, since most newspapers of that time were committed to being recycled for the war effort and it might very well be this issue of the paper is the only one available for study. The importance of this particular edition of the paper being among other things like the first critical review of a new film titled “Casablanca,” this was the first time actual photos of the attack were made available through the War Department for the general population to see and the paper using color requiring government approval for the picture showing the very moment a Japanese bomb struck the U.S.S. Shaw.
Shortly after the Attack on America a columnist from the L. A. Times and I were discussing the need for a slogan like Remember Pearl Harbor, and we both agreed Remember 9/11 was the most appropriate. We both knew such slogans were essential as a unifying force bringing a nation together in common cause against a clearly defined enemy.
But sadly, we were to be disappointed since we both came to realize this was not going to be a declared war against the enemy of Islam, that this enemy not only was not going to be clearly defined, but this was to be a politically correct war not intended to be fought to win, but one to protect the guilty and further enrich and empower those who intended to profit from the Attack on America. The only thing we were unsure of was whether 9/11 like December 7 could have been prevented but was not because of sheer ineptitude or something darkly evil and malevolent on the part of those in power. Even today it is being argued whether FDR purposely encouraged the attack on Pearl Harbor for the “greater good.” Caesar Bush and Company? By now, even people not given to conspiracy theories have cause to wonder?
The problem confronting us is the fact we don’t know who is lying or who is telling the truth about 9/11. We know Sandy Berger is a morally bankrupt liar, we know he stole papers that pointed the finger of guilt at the Clinton administration. We know those like Albright have “selective memories” of the events surrounding 9/11 and bin Laden. But there is also “Bin Laden who?” Rice who, among many others, would do anything to protect Bush. And few doubt the 9/11 Commission, as with the Warren Commission was an exercise in protecting the guilty.
Summing the scum primarily from the Clinton camp screaming over the forthcoming ABC miniseries Kathleen Parker concludes her column on the subject “To our great peril, nothing much has changed.” Right, Kathleen, and when it comes down to whose word We the People are to take the fact few trust any from either the Republican or Democrat side of 9/11 speaks for itself, especially the refusal on the part of both to secure our borders for the sake of slave labor, underscoring why nothing much has changed. Politicians and their corporate bosses have only power and wealth motivating them.
Diana West asks “It’s been five years, so who’s the enemy?” Well, to answer Diana I would say when you don’t know who is telling the truth it is impossible to know who the real enemy is. During WWII many Germans came to realize they had been lied to, but by the time they realized this it was too late and Hitler had total power.
We the People know we are being lied to, but what can we do about it? Is it already too late? We know when primary source material is destroyed to protect the guilty we are in the hands of those no better than Hitler or Stalin. Still, in a nuclear age and faced with the implacable foe of Islam we can only hope our leadership will come to realize pragmatically the stakes are too high not to fight this war to win, even though for the most base of motives. The alternative is … what?