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Good afternoon, eRepublikans. We're in a bit of a situation, I think.

As you have undoubtedly been informed, the United States recently made a definitive decision to hit Japan, much to the surprise of the American public. Many Americans had been led to believe that our next opponent was to be the United Kingdom, considering that PEACE (or PHOENIX, I should say) is hardly a threat; however, this is clearly not the case. Libertarian Party President DanielCD perfectly expressed our collective surprise in his most recent article.

Well, America, what does this mean for us? I suppose that, above all, we're looking at a question of why. In President Jewitt's Inaugural Address, he gives us a most interesting reason for going to war with Japan: "I want to give our economy a good boost." Jewitt remarks that he plans to take over several powerful Japanese companies, including Toyota, and that he hopes to be able to "take advantage of some Chinese manufacturing and other economic incentives." I ask you, America, after fighting PEACE for months on the grounds of liberation and freedom, how is our war for conquest and money any better? I, for one, think that ethical justification for war could never be based on economic gains. Even with America in mind, we ought to remind our commander-in-chief that, as the saying goes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

I intend to keep this article short, considering that news of the war has more-than-adequately saturated the media. One thought, though. Consider a date, if only for a moment: December 7th, 1941. "A day that will live in infamy", according to Franklin Roosevelt. After carrying out a surprise assault on the U.S. military, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto famously said, "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with terrible resolve." Forgive my mixture of reality and fantasy, but I think that such reasoning holds true in today's world, apart from one thing - we are attacking without provocation. I am not one to make predictions, but it seems to me that carrying out such an attack will do nothing more than earn us the animosity of the greater world. It's a possibility that I may entirely wrong, making predictions based on nothing but paranoia; still, there's a possibility that I'm right, and I think that it's only fair to consider the possibility that we ourselves may be waking a sleeping giant, and filling every enemy, both near and far, with a terrible resolve.

Nothing we could say would amount to more than speculation, but we can still be certain that tensions are high on both sides - this is because, when it finally comes time for the first blows to be struck, it will be impossible to know how things will ultimately turn out, for, as you have heard me say so many times before, truth takes no sides.