President Obama's response to the murder of 49 innocent Americans by a Radical Islamic Terrorist (three words he will not say) is laughable. Instead of directing his anger toward the killer who openly claimed allegiance to the Islamic State, he maintains that Islam is a religion of peace. Instead of directing his anger toward a murderer who had voiced antipathy toward gays, President Obama sounded off about the weapon the man used. Instead of connecting a string of terrorist attacks from Paris to Belgium to San Bernadino to now Orlando all in the name of a single religion, he could barely conceal his fury at presidential candidate, Donald Trump, for daring to suggest we might not ought to admit more adherents of this particular religion until we can figure out why it spawns so many deranged murderers.

So what, I asked, would President Obama have done were he president on December 7, 1941.

Dateline December 7, 1941:

At 7:55 a.m. Hawaiian time, 360 Japanese warplanes descended on the U. S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor. Two thousand four hundred three people were killed including 68 civilians. The President is annoyed.

In measured tones, he warned Americans that the 360 pilots who killed 2,403 are a minuscule percentage of the 73 million inhabitants of Japan.

The President promised the  State Police of Hawaii the full cooperation of the United States government in hunting down these criminals, and if caught, to punish these lone-wolf assassins to the fullest extent of the law. So long, of course, they are not subjected to imprisonment at Guantanamo, harsh interrogations, deprived of sushi or kept from worshiping whenever they feel the urge.

But the President in his speech was careful to warn the American people not to overreact. Only a few of the Japanese people pose any danger. He also pointed out that this heinous crime could not have occurred had these 360 men not had access to airplanes. With that in mind, he is calling for increased airplane control. Private citizens and corporations not in bed aligned with the government do not need these weapons of mass destruction, he insisted. There are other ways farmers can protect their crops from insect infestation than giving them access to weapons which in the wrong hands can be lethal.

The president also criticized political opponents who recommend retaliation against the nation of Japan, explaining such action would be counterproductive since only a small minority of Japanese citizens participated in the attack on Pearl Harbor. He pointed out that his administration had murdered a few of the most radical of the Japanese leadership by droning them one at a time.

In the efforts of peace, the president has promised to admit as many Japanese pilots into the United States as can make it across the Pacific. In a further attempt at peaceful resolution, he has commissioned an investigatory committee to look into what about America offended these pilots to the point they would drop bombs on Hawaii on a peaceful Sunday morning.

Initial indications are that the pilots are offended by American freedom and prosperity. He is working diligently to rectify that.

As George Gordon, Lord Byron, once wrote: "And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'tis that I may not weep."