Remembering Pearl Harbor

I literally choked on my Cheerios as I read Honan’s defense of the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. I was stunned to learn that the Pacific war was not brought about by Japan alone, but that the U.S. was equally responsible.

The Japanese are promoting the view these days that they went to war to save all of Asia from the Western menace.

Of course, in order to correctly pursue this bit of revisionist history, we have to forget the rape of Nanking and the hundreds of thousands of other Asian civilians who were slaughtered by the Japanese military. Then there’s the Bataan death march. I suppose he could justify that too.

Put the war behind us? We have to. Change history so that everyone is equally at fault and America is once more in the wrong? No way.

JAMES BRUNER

Van Nuys