Remember Bluto's Speech in Animal House?

Remember Bluto's Speech in Animal House?

When he rallies the rest of the fraternity brothers with the speech about, "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?" (And one of them whispers, "Germans? Pearl Harbor?" And another says, "Forget it. He's on a roll.") Well, you recall at the end of the film we find out that historically-challenged Bluto becomes Senator Blutarsky.

And life is imitating fiction. President Obama explains here that the goal in Afghanistan isn't victory:

President Obama has put securing Afghanistan near the top of his foreign policy agenda, but "victory" in the war-torn country isn't necessarily the United States' goal, he said Thursday in a TV interview.

"I'm always worried about using the word 'victory,' because, you know, it invokes this notion of Emperor Hirohito coming down and signing a surrender to MacArthur," Obama told ABC News.

And Gateway Pundit points out that Hirohito didn't sign the surrender to MacArthur. But the great intellectual Obama has never been real strong on subtle historical points, like how many states the U.S. has. (His Vice President isn't any better, with that speech Biden gave about how Roosevelt spoke on television to reassure Americans after the Great Crash.) The bigger issue, of course, is that by utterly defeating the Japanese (after a sneak attack), we were able to fundamentally transform Japanese culture to one that might outproduce us, but seems to have learned the lesson not to start wars. Does anyone seriously think that anything less than an utterly crushing defeat of Japan would have accomplished this end?

If Obama actually knew anything about history (or anything else), he would recognize the obvious parallels to another sneak attack done on a beautiful September morning some years ago, which started the war with Afghanistan. But this guy has been the Affirmative Action President from the very beginning--so ignorant that he thinks that there is an Austrian language. But so what?