Opinion: Attacks on Pearl Harbor and the World Trade Center shrank the world and changed perceptions [Opinion]
Combined with the— the belief borne of events in the 1930s that would-be Hitlerian tyrants must never be appeased, but swiftly defeated — the lesson of Pearl Harbor suggested that Americans had to expand their definition of “national security.” Threats must be defeated early abroad before they metastasized at home.
In short order, such conceptions of an extended, if not global, national security meant there were no “” areas that stood outside of American interests. And even though Pearl Harbor ultimately led to the Axis powers’ defeat, new threats quickly emerged — so it seemed — that committed the United States to a decades-long Cold War against what many deemed a monolithic, expansionistic communist menace.
Such perils arose even as Americans were still demobilizing from their global war effort. The Soviets tested their own atomic bomb in 1949. That same year, Mao Zedong’s communists claimed victory in the Chinese civil war. In the summer of 1950, North Korean soldiers invaded South Korea atop Soviet-made tanks. No wonder key national security council documents likesuggested that conflict between the United States and its communist adversaries had become “endemic.
And even when the threat of global communism diminished as the Cold War concluded, the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, reinforced now long-held notions that American national security required a global presence. Indeed, we might ask if Pearl Harbor helped make the “global war on terror” a
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