"America Planned Pearl Harbor" (say, did you pass high school?)

I did not post a entry yesterday, but that does not mean much.

I did, however, have on my calendar( physical and electronic) that December 7,1941 at about 10AM Pacific Time (8 AM Hawaiian) Pearl harbor was attacked by the Japanese. My father told me about living in Vallejo at the time, and his dad, a master carpenter at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, came home and told the family the nation was at war. My father in law also told me about it, how the nation was shocked and stood behind the government when FDR called December 7 a day that would live in infamy..

Fast forward, another foe decided that a sudden and deliberate attack would be the best way to deter America, and on September 11, 2001 Al-Qaeda (also al-Qaida or al-Qa'ida or al-Qa'idah) strikes.

In the aftermath of the first event, America joined a global war against an Imperial Japan and Nazis Germany...today we fight against a wide assortment of ideologues bend on establishing Islamist states throughout the world, overthrow ‘un-Islamic regimes’, expel U.S. soldiers and Western influence from the Gulf, and capture Jerusalem as a Muslim city..

OK, so enough with the history, what really flames my butt is people that say the US Government has any part in planning and execution of 9/11...we all should know by now the attacker has acknowledged over and over their glee at the attack, how they planned it and so forth. What I find really distressing is the prevalence of a lack of critical thinking and demonstration of the enormous degree to which public EDUCATION in this country has failed to teach us about our own history, past and present.

On this fine December evening, while reading some of my friends blogs, I came across this comment, which typifies the ignorance I am railing against "you are aware the government knew about the attack several weeks in advance arn't you? pearl harbour was planned. "

I am glad there are not as many of these ignorant souls as there are more educated people..