"Remember Pearl Harbor." Hiroshima, Obama and the Lessons of the Law of Unintended Consequences.

The arguments continue over the use of the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Henry I. Miller writes in Forbes that "The Nuking Of Japan Was A Tactical And Moral Imperative." Robert Fisk writes in the Independent that the bombings were without a doubt war crimes.

Having been raised around veterans who thanked God every time the subject came up that they didn't have to invade Japan, I tend to agree with Miller rather than Fisk. Certainly if Japan had procured atomic weapons before us they would not have hesitated to use them on us or anyone else, no matter how many innocents they would have killed in the process. Nor would they be losing any sleep over it today, as demonstrated by their continued denial of brutal historical reality with their convenient amnesia about subjects like the treatment of POWs, the rape of Nanking and "comfort women."

The unanimous opinion of those veterans I grew up around could be summed up in one question that I must have heard a hundred times: "What did they expect after Pearl Harbor?" Pearl Harbor was the fatal overreach. It united the country in wave of patriotism that had swept these men into a fight they were determined to win. They knew what the Japanese were going to get after Pearl Harbor, even if they didn't yet know the cost to themselves. But as for the Japanese, well, what they EXPECTED was victory over the soft, unprepared and, it must be admitted, arrogant Americans. What they GOT was Hiroshima, Nagasaki and abject defeat. Even without the atomic bombs, though, Curtis Lemay would have made sure with standard incendiary bombs that there weren't two unburned houses side by side in all of Japan.

The Japanese didn't expect that on 7 December 1941. They were collectivist little "Sons of Heaven" and they served their Emperor in the sure and certain knowledge that they would win. In that they shared the arrogance of all collectivist regimes of whatever stripe throughout history including, it must be said, the current crop led by Barack Obama. The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor because they could, and because they expected that by doing so they would win the war. They damn near did, you know, because the United States gave them every expectation by its inaction that they could. The Obamanoids are attacking individual liberty in this country root and branch because our of own inaction -- because they have yet to be convinced that such behavior will have unintended consequences for THEM. That is our fault.

However, just because the Law of Unintended Consequences has yet to be enforced upon them, as it was on the Japanese after Pearl Harbor, doesn't mean it has been repealed. It hasn't. It can't be.

Hideki Tojo at his war crimes trial.

I expect that the current collectivist crop of domestic enemies of the Constitution will likely overreach at some point. They have every bit of the ignorance and the arrogance that the Japanese had on 6 December 1941. And when they attack their own people -- in surety of their expectation that they can win without consequence to themselves -- they will discover with shock that Fourth Generation Warfare in an American context will make that move even more personally suicidal to them than Pearl Harbor was to the Japanese militarists. The difference will be that while the Japanese embraced suicide in their warrior code of Bushido, these 21st Century collectivists are all appetite and no courage. It will not take four years and the deaths of countless innocents to change their war-making minds. Samurai they ain't.

So on this Hiroshima anniversary day, I would helpfully suggest that our collectivist leaders consider history and the Law of Unintended Consequences before it bites them where they live. If they need any counseling along those lines perhaps they can consult Tojo, if they can summon his shade from Hell.

Tojo ready to dance the executioner's jig.