It's Time to Retire Pearl Harbor and James Baker, Too

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It's Time to Retire Pearl Harbor and James Baker, Too:

For 65 years the story of Pearl Harbor has been told over and over to remind us how much the enemies of freedom hate us, how fragile our freedoms are, how true it is that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. Today this icon of American political culture has its 65th birthday. I suggest that we give it a gold watch, mumble a few words about its “long service to the nation,” and send it off into the sunset of retirement.

Because the Pearl Harbor story has served the nation badly. It has served mainly to justify all sorts of wars, invasions, and usurpations done in the name of “national security,” which have only left us less secure and left some of us -- and many more of our victims -- dead, maimed, or permanently debilitated.

Pearl Harbor has been used to persuade too many Americans that every time the U.S. gets involved in a conflict with another nation, it’s the final battle between good and evil. After all, anyone who opposes our pure innocent policies must be the embodiment of absolute evil, dead set on destroying us, right?

It’s always the same old “bolt out of the blue” story: There are always “evildoers” out there ready to pounce upon us and obliterate us. If we let down our guard even a bit, all the dominos will fall. Now it’s “the terrorists” who lurk in every airport and seaport, ready and able at a moment’s notice to obliterate us if we show the slightest sign of weakness or make the smallest mistake.
Even the Baker-Hamilton ISG Report, which we’re told is the most “realistic” path to peace, paints the same dire picture of falling dominos: