Waiting for Yamamoto

The Cunning Realist:
"Yamamoto refers to Isoroku Yamamoto, the Japanese Navy commander who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor. With increasingly frequency, we're seeing references to events like Pearl Harbor and 9/11 appear, but not in the context one might think."

"Start with cynicism, mix with desperation on Iraq and the midterm elections, add some illegitimate co-opting of Schumpeter, and throw in a bit of Rapturism. What you seem to get is the belief---never stated openly, of course, but just below the surface---that "another Pearl Harbor" would be as much an opportunity as a disaster. How else to wake up those who aren't sufficiently afraid?"

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