Why It is Easier To Fail With Gold News Than You Would possibly Assume

For Americans, the shock attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, enraged the nation and roused an virtually genocidal willpower to precise revenge on the "treacherous Japs." Playing upon racist feelings, propagandists depicted the Japanese as subhumans, merciless and mindless instruments of the emperor, "yellow monkeys" intent on world domination, and a rabid vermin that have to be exterminated if civilization was to outlive. One soldier even despatched President Roosevelt a letter opener carved from a Japanese thigh bone (a gift that FDR declined). Perhaps this soldier in the photo committed suicide rather than surrender. The decision for unconditional…