Check out some interesting perspective on the Pearl Harbor attack from author and GOP strategist Craig Shirley in an interview with Roll Call published on Wednesday. Asked about the nation’s view of Hawaii — still a territory in 1941 — at the time of the attack, Shirley had this to say:

“They didn’t even think of Hawaii. People didn’t even know where Pearl Harbor was. A Member of Congress, the day after Dec. 7, said that Pearl Harbor should have been put in the middle of the country where it was easy to keep an eye on it. … America was very insular, very isolationist, very inward looking. They were not thinking about the Pacific at all.” 

Read the full interview.