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DOROTHY RABINOWITZ
Consider
the justly famed speech an enraged American president delivered the day
after Pearl Harbor. Then try imagining that address by Franklin
Roosevelt—a leader to whom Mr. Obama has been compared—as it would
sound in Obama language.
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"Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date that will live in infamy, the
United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by
naval and air forces allegedly from the Empire of Japan . . . Yesterday
the Japanese government allegedly launched an attack on Malaya. Last
night Japanese forces allegedly attacked Hong Kong. Last night Japanese
forces allegedly attacked Guam . . ."
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Still it wasn't the president's comments but those of Janet Napolitano that reverberated. ...
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 Asked in an interview with the German magazine "Der Spiegel" last March
why she had avoided using the word "terrorism" in her testimony to
Congress, she explained that she had instead preferred to use another
term: "man-caused disasters." That choice of words demonstrated, she
said, that "we want to move away from the politics of fear."
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