Special Section: At War - What Are We Made Of?: The guts to resist evil.(Brief Article)

From: National Review | Date: October 1, 2001| Author: Hanson, Victor Davis | Copyright information

The United States finally entered the First World War because of the nation's lingering outrage over a few hundred floating bodies from the sunken ocean liner Lusitania, which was torpedoed during Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare. More than two decades later, we declared war against the Japanese Empire after 2,400 of our sailors were surprised and killed on a Sunday morning at Pearl Harbor. In the aftermath of each attack, the United States did not seek the sanction of worl...

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