Today's "leaders" would have to wait for their advisers to tell them what to say for the smallest political fallout. The men who died in Pearl harbor should never be forgotten. Sadly, today our schools gloss over too much of our past and that increases the apathy.
I guess what pisses me off is when Obama had to talk with his "War Counsel" as if he was doing a shot at not getting kicked off the island. Could just see the President Roosevelt telling Gen. Eisenhower that the Battle of the Bulge could wait a few months til he got some new poll data in.
Having a bunch of kids around the table deciding what a General in the field needs when he has already asked for it is a bit stupid. Either he trusts that General's ability to do his job and knows what he needs or he should replace him. Then shorting what the General needs months later after the request is simply mind numbing, even more so after telling the enemy we are going to pull our in 18 months...
We are destined to lose both wars when he is done. With an end result of an extreme loss of life which is yet to come because of this stupidity....
Wars aren't meant to be pretty, they cause a lot of death and destruction as a by product, but when you try to have a "Feel good War", you are going to get your ass kicked by those that want to kill you.
I would have had no issues with leveling Iraq or Afghanistan, leaving them and let what is left of the bad government there stay in power, they would still have control, but would be winching at every popcorn fart. Instead we are into wasting our resources with one IUD after another, in a war that was just fought wrong.
You make the prospects of going to war with the U.S. so terrible, it isn't an option.... You end up with Peace...