re: #339 Lidane

A lot of people have been saying that for the last ten years. During the Bush years, saying it got you a single response:

The right lost their collective shit on 9/11 and they’ve been whipping themselves into a frenzy these past ten years. It’s no surprise that Breivik was inspired by them.

“Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event––like a new Pearl Harbor” — PNAC

After 9/11 we were lead to believe that it was another Pearl Harbor. I would say not. Again, it wasn’t something to ignore but the historical, military, and strategic parallels are missing. The only similarity being in that it played a role in galvanizing America. Al Qaeda is not anything close militarily to the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy. Al Qaeda cannot invade most of China, North Korea, and a number of South Pacific Islands as the Japanese did during WWII. There is no, or hardly any, equivalence between Pearl Harbor and 9/11 other than on a psychological level.