On Dec. 7, 1951, media barely mentioned Pearl Harbor. [View All]

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Here is a newspaper opinion piece in the LA Times comparing the 10-year anniversary of 9/11 and Pearl Harbor.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-wiener-anniversaries-20110909,0,4757773.story

So why the forced nostalgia, the mawkish and morbid attention given by media today? The writer draws his own conclusions, of course, but here's something I will add. Pearl Harbor began the USA's official entry into WW2. After much sacrifice that dwarfed 12/7, the USA emerged as an unquestioned and triumphant victor. Yes we were attacked, but look what we accomplished as a result. The intervening years between 9/11 and now, by contrast, show an empire in decline. We are still fighting two botched and drawn-out wars, the second of which was wholly unnecessary. It has ruined our economy, seriously compromised our civil liberties and militarized our thinking with no discernible end in sight. And at ground zero in NYC little progress has been made in repairing the physical damage. In short, there is much cause for regret and little for optimism.

Plus a televised media united under corporate control has fetishized 9/11 making mandatory the ostentatious remembrances.