How much self-harm can a race of people inflict upon themselves? Tonight, December 8, 2025, the day after the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, we consider some of the worst examples, America’s instant about-face and entry into World War II on Dec. 8, 1941 being one. Another such bout of insanity was inflicted upon our people by Napoleon in 1812, when on his sole command the largest army ever assembled to that point, 600,00 Europeans was roasted in the summer, then frozen in the winter, and reduced to 100,000 survivors by the time they reached a scorched earth Moscow. As Napoleon himself raced back to Paris, those 100,000 were slaughtered to near zero as they fought their way back. What in our European makeup has rendered us capable of innumerable such acts of insanity?
