I don't know if you had parents, grandparents or some relatives that lived through WW2, but your assumption that fear of attack was not prevalent, because FDR's administration was of a different mindset is way off.
My parents lived in the S.F. Bay area of California during WW2, and both my parents shared with me how frightened folks were. Japanese subs roamed the West coast at will back in the early stages of the war. In fact a few oil tankers were sunk off the Oregon coast by Japanese subs. One such sub actually surfaced off of Long Beach and proceeded to shell the coast line.
My parents as well as all the other folks in the Bay area had to use special headligh covers on their automobiles, to keep the lights from being easily spotted by potential Japanese Bomber planes. They had to use black-out shades on their homes at night so that the lights from their residences didn't get spotted by enemy bombers too.
My father worked in war related industry right near where SFO Air port is, building war ships for the war effort.
One day my father along with thousands of other ship builder/workers were rounded-up by the U.S. Army unexpectedly and all put on buses under armed rifle-point guard and transported up into those barren mountains above South San Francisco. They stayed all stayed up their in those buses under guard by the arm for a few hours. Finally they were all busee back down to the ship building yards in Brisbane(between S.F. and South S.F.) and were released to start working on their ships again.
You know what had happened? It was that sub in Long beach that shelled the shoreline that brought that on.
Were we scared back then. You bet! People on the West coast of the U.S. were absolutely petrified/worried about an unexpected invasion by the Japanese Imperial Navy fleet. To this day, there are still remnants of the old artillery implacements guarding the entrance into the Golden Gate.
People were told by the government to be wary of suspicious acting people, and to be watchful of aircraft, and to report any and all things.
Foods were rationed for the war effort. My folks had ration coupons for foods, and gasoline. Everyone who was sane had some amount of fear.
After the unexpected attack on Pearl Harbor, our country didn't know where the Japanese Imperial fleet had sailed. We didn't know if the West Coast(California, Oregon, Washington) was their next target/objective. We had a few aircraft that patrolled the Pacific coast line, but it wasn't very effective against submarines and we really didn't have the military hardware to stop an all-out invasion. We were really vunerable. We didn't know the total intensions of the Japanese. We didn't know that they were just attempting to cripple our Naval presence in the Pacific so that they could take the Phillipines, and other strategic American interests in the Central and Eastern Pacific.
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Now getting back to nowadays..............You are so way off in saying that this administration is not doing similarly to the WW2 administration of FDR. There were plenty of posters, radio messages, and newspaper messages reminding main-land Americans that the danger of invasion was real or possible imminent.
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Every heard of Dutch Harbor, Alaska. We lost many G.I.'s up there pushing the Japanese off that piece of land as well as some others on the American Alleutian island chain.
Our government infact kept the Japanese siezure of Dutch Harbor, Alaska insulated from the American people. Very few Americans know that our very mainland was occupied by the Japanese for a short duration during WW2.
Very bloody ground and air battles were fought on the Alaska coastline to rout the Japanese army. In fact one Japanese contingent of several thousand soldiers actually refused to surrender and committed suicide. Only less than 20 Japanese prisoners were taken out of thousands of enemy combatants!
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Japan launched high altitude ballons from their country that floated clear across the pacific on the prevailing jet-stream toward N America. These balloons were armed with incendiaries/bombs that were timed to drop on our forest lands throughout Oregon, Washington, California and on-Eastward into the Idaho/Montana......and farther if possible. One such balloon actually reached all the way to Minnesota!
These balloons were intended to cause widespread forest fires all over the Northwest and North central U.S. to basically overwhelm us with economic and man power drain.
Fortunately these balloons didn't work too well, but they did claim the life of some Oregonians that were picnicing. Once-such balloon and it's contents were found by a picnicing family, and ended up exploding when it was touched/handled. It killed some children, I believe.
People had good reason to be scared, and nowadays, people have good reason to be scared as many thousand Arabic speaking folks are being picked up crossing our Southern border with Mexico. Law inforcement and Border agents are catching people of Middle East decent that have been learning rudimentary Spanish in order blend in with the Mexican border jumpers. These middle eastern border jumpers are usually hiring Coyotes that are professionally armed too. They are paying $20,000.00 to upwards of $70,000.00 to be ferried across the Southwest U.S. border by heavily armed guards.
One such law inforcement officer, on cable news showed a jacket left by a border jumper, that had embroidered patches with pictures of an airplaine hitting the twin towers, and another with the lion's logo that is Al Queda.
The border law inforcement folks say that Hezbollah, and other cells are definitely in our country. This didn't start with GWB attacking Iraq either. This has going on before his administration. It is an ongoing thing that spans many years.........We do have a good reason to be fearful. We should have an administration that keeps us informed of danger, and potential danger. We need to be vigilant.
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You can't live in denial, and also play politics because you don't like GWB, when it comes to war against your nation.
When WW2 happened, the American people pretty much dropped politics and just plain got behind their President. This new war is not battle ships lobbing 16" shells, or Zero's bombing us or armed soldiers jumping out of land crafts on the shores of our beaches..........yet it's just as dangerous, as it's insidious, and being waged slowly, and stealthily from withing and from without.
Look what Timothy Levey did.........from within........but now we have cells of his type, in our country..............who see death of innocent American adults, and children as a means to be glorified with their twisted God..........and their selfish carnal desires to have perpetual sex with multitudes of virgins.
Fear stimulates people to be careful, and also rattles a nation into reality; a reality that is long-over due for the U.S..
The "hell no, I won't go", and "make love not war" attitude has brought the U.S. to a place where it's left open to ridicule, and disgracing treatment from many nations.
In some ways, the Muslim religion sees the U.S. as a melting pot of non ethics and crumbling morals. Just look at our movies, the proliferation of pornagraphy on the internet, etc. In some ways we have just fueled their twisted, pharisitical anger towards us.
Understand that our country's moral, ethical breakdown does not give any entity the right to bring death of innocents upon us, but we do have a responsibility as a nation to project ourselves as a moral/ethical beacon to the world if we are going to keep and earn our right to be a super power that intervenes in the world in a humanitarian vain.
I believe that GWB not only is doing what he believes will protect our country from terrorism, but also is attempting to project and renew an interest in our citizenry in an ethical/moral vain too.
I don't agree with his border protection policies, but I believe that he's more correct in his policies than he's incorrect.
We need to support our country in this very unsure, and trying time.
