The authors of the report state emphatically

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American post-Pearl Harbor patriotism swelled in the absence of since-discovered proof that Winston Churchill called FDR the evening of Nov. 26, 1941 to warn him that an attack on Pearl Harbor was imminent -- a warning that was ignored by FDR.

Since discovering that 3,219 Americans were killed at Pearl Harbor to justify U.S. military involvement in the Pacific, we have also learned that U.S. involvement in other wars were also politically contrived. In 1996, former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara made front page news for three days when he publicly announced that the second Gulf of Tonkin incident used to justify sending ground troops into Vietnam never happened.

This [report] is not an argument for limiting free speech on college campuses.”

Then the ACTA report seems to contradict itself by “insisting” that higher education teach “our” (whose?) history in these “unsettling” times: “But it is equally important -- and never more so in these phone number list unsettling times -- to insist that colleges and universities transmit our history and heritage to the next generation. Academic freedom does not mean freedom from criticism.” (bold emphasis added, underline original )

Much to ACTA's chagrin, the post-Pearl Harbor trust that rallied a nation to support, fight and die in WWII has been replaced by distrust and disgust. Most of the 115 dissident comments contained in the report appear to reflect well-informed non-appreciation for U.S. foreign policies of the last several decades -- policies that cater to the desires of powerful corporate interests regardless of the cost to human dignity, human lives and the environment.