As if hosting Japan's prime minister at Pearl Harbor weren't insulting enough...
Flanked by President Obama at the 75th anniversary memorial for the 1941 attack on the Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe refused to apologize for his country's murder of 2,403 Americans.... but he did offer his "condolences":
"President Obama, the United States of America, and the people around the world, as the prime minister of Japan, I offer my sincere and everlasting condolences to the souls of those who lost their lives here as well as to the spirits of all the brave men and women whose lives were taken by a war that commenced in this very place and also the souls of the countless innocent people who became victims of the war," Abe said through a translator.
Adding insult to injury, the craven Obama didn't blink an eye, lecturing those gathered that they must not "demonize" those who are different. He then said the alliance between Japan and the U.S. "has never been stronger" and that "the fruits of peace always outweigh the plunder of war."
And a president with a spine outweighs one who spinelessly spits on the graves of dead Americans.
Obama is vacationing in Hawaii and visited the USS Arizona Memorial with Abe Tuesday afternoon. During his remarks, Obama couldn't help but get a dig in at President-elect Trump's expense, saying "It is here that we remember that even when hatred burns hottest, even when the tug of tribalism is at its most primal, we must resist the urge to turn inward."
"We must resist the urge to demonize those who are different." As if we went to war with Japan for no other reason than because they were "different."
Obama then had the audacity to invoke America's "Greatest Generation" and pretended to understand the values they stood for. He then, of course, referenced internment camps (you know, because Trump is building them for Muslims as I type this).
"It is here that we reflect on how war tests our most enduring values," Obama said in reference to the Japanese internment camps that were, ironically, erected by a Democratic icon, Franklin D. Roosevelt.


