Well, there was the whole Flying Tigers thing where we had sent pilots to aid the Chinese in attacks on Japan (justified, but still), and the whole oil and steel embargo which didn't really make us a lot of friends in Tokyo.

As for jointly attacking Gemany, Japan and Italy, they had already agreed to join powers in 1940, a year before Pearl Harbor. At the same time, Hitler was sinking US merchant boats going in and out of Europe. We were literally stuck between a rock and a hard place.

As for the 5% solution, a better argument would be that commerical restrictions and limitations make it far more difficult to attack a port via a shipping container than it is to hijack a plane. It would take considerably more effort to create such a container, mark it for delivery, have it properly processed and delivered in a timely manner and be able to use it. What if your dirty bomb were to go off early while still buried under literally tons of cargo laden containers? You'd probably sink the ship and make a rather bad mess in the harbor, but that's about it.

Terrorist are opportunists. There's simply less easy opportunity with shipping containers as there are with other methods.

I hope Bush takes Morris' advice, because as I've always stated, Dick Morris is wrong 99.44% of the time. Besides, Jesse Taylor has already rebutted every one of Morris' "zingers."

But again, I urge the President to take Dick Morris' advice. Any man who knows that much about women's feet must be right--0.66% of the time.

Psst, Jeff: 99.44 + .66 = 100.1%.
But yes, I agree that Morris is usually wrong in his columns and it's usually best if he's on the other side.
In this case I think he's right on about emphasizing the WWII analogy of fighting worldwide facism to counter Kerry's "Every war is Vietnam all over again" defeatism.
Because it's exactly true.