a few shootings at Kent State shut that down for good.

As San Francisco Weekly and others have noted, while discussing Occupy Wall Street on November 17, Ann Coulter stated: "So at the moment anyway, I mean I don't know what's going to happen in New York today, but at the moment I'm not really worried of a movement like SDS which really swept a lot of the college campuses taking over. Of course if it does, just remember the lesson from my book: it just took a few shootings at Kent State to shut that down for good.

Ann Coulter is one of the few public personalities to state what she believes. We could count the dead at Kent State on our fingers, but they registered with us more than the millions who had perished in Southeast Asia. As for the anti-war movement, the NG marksmen had "shut that down for good."

Recently, a clever film editor combined Hillary Clinton's denunciation of the Arab regimes punishment of Arab Spring demonstrators with the courtesies extended by the NYPD to #OWS rowdies. In each case hardly a regime changer, it is a painful reminder of hypocrisy yet to unfold. Thoughts of democracy and tranquility find a voice in both the Arab Spring and the OWS. This voice finds resonance among the youth of the world. They see how their parents ended up and wish to avoid that fate.

Good luck the authors of the Kellogg-Briand Pact of the 1920's would wish them. The horrors of WWI embedded in the public mind, no politician dared to make the case for another burst of world-engulfing destruction. Instead, the lust for war took a decade-long respite in Japan towards the conquest of Manchuria, China and the Southeast Asia Co-prosperity Sphere.

The events of 7 December 1941 re-captured American hearts and minds for war. If Pearl Harbor was a contrivance, it gave birth to a string of preemptive wars that endure with us today.