Who knew Lurch was such a war monger?
Via Beltway Confidential:
Secretary of State John Kerry borrowed Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s denunciation of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to urge Congress to authorize a military strike on Syria following the latest chemical weapons attack.
“That will be one of those moments in history that will live in infamy,” Kerry told the House Foreign Affairs Committee while discussing the possibility that Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad escape an international response to the most recent chemical weapons attack by his regime during the Syrian civil war.
The “live in infamy” phrase comes from FDR’s Pearl Harbor speech. “Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan,” Roosevelt said. “The United States was at peace with that nation and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with its government and its emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific.”