A brilliant conceived book called "Cultures Of War" compares Pearl Harbor to 9/11 and looks at the response by this war mongering country to the rare occurrences where outside forces started and waged war on America. John Dower is a preeminent historian and the research and in depth analysis of the Japan War, as I like to call that campaign of World War II, and the Iraq War II is a great written piece of art and a difficult comparison by the most acute authors of military history. The failure of intelligence in preventing the obvious, long well planned attacks is suggested by Dower by our superior attitude concerning other cultures we clearly felt as inferior to us back in both 1941 and 2001 . 
The arrogance of military leaders to ignore our actions and policies towards these nations and group that would obviously lead to more action on the part of our enemies clearly allowed these two historical events to conclude. Dower wonders why our leaders failed to take threats from our enemies seriously. I personally wondered by arming supplies and weaponry to enemies of our enemies enemies how did we think we should never appear on their radar. Clearly the Chinese and Japanese war was not of our business and the conflict should of been let for those two Asian powers to sort things out on their hemisphere. Likewise financial backing governments that repressed so called terrorist groups in the Middle East is clearly not a wise decision and an act of war on our part siding in these internal foreign conflicts for the sake of globalization and domestic weapons industries. 
The arrogance of military leaders to ignore our actions and policies towards these nations and group that would obviously lead to more action on the part of our enemies clearly allowed these two historical events to conclude. Dower wonders why our leaders failed to take threats from our enemies seriously. I personally wondered by arming supplies and weaponry to enemies of our enemies enemies how did we think we should never appear on their radar. Clearly the Chinese and Japanese war was not of our business and the conflict should of been let for those two Asian powers to sort things out on their hemisphere. Likewise financial backing governments that repressed so called terrorist groups in the Middle East is clearly not a wise decision and an act of war on our part siding in these internal foreign conflicts for the sake of globalization and domestic weapons industries.
This book does a Great job illuminating how these two wars are so similar and a result of our expansion and idiotically expanding as both a pacific power and a Middle East oil protecting global empire. What in the United States of America don't our leaders understand where this country is and should remain. The various conflicts in the Philippines and our involvement in the brutal Iraq-Iran fiasco is shown as a steady diet and involvement of foreign conflicts Americans exploited and used to benefit their position on the international stage. A silent captive audience is what American military builders hoped to see but this wold pt be the case. When that stage conflicted with other nation builders something has to collapse in an unstable arena and this has been the setting for many of our foreign adventures that required shipping armies and navies throughout the world. This country's addiction for perceived power and need to establish bases for stages of operation ultimately wold lead to the "attacks"on American soil from desperate enemies. The oak ends with a study of the occupation of Iraq and Japan and the differences of the violent nature between the worship of a living God obviously was easier to stamp out than a God who basically define a people and their existence and ignorance of culture pretty much lead to the debacle of post war Iraq and the debacle we still see as a direst result of our invasion and attack in 2003 . Basically Pearl Harbor and 9/11 gave us an excuse to invade three countries and attempt to remake them completely in a different form mainly by this country's extreme culture of war that has been evident since 1776 .
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