Politics

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Chris Hoehne, 50, of Fairfax, Va., aligns Boy Scouts from Pack 15 in Fairfax while participants in a Civil War reenactment at Blenheim's Civil War Interpretive Center in Fairfax, Va., on Sunday, December 2, 2012. Hoehne is part of The Fairfax Rifles who partake in Civil War reenactment though out the year. (Craig Bisacre/The Washington Times)

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**FILE** Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner answers questions Nov. 30, 2012, about averting the "fiscal cliff" for the Dec. 2 episode of CBS' “Face the Nation.” (Associated Press/CBS News)

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**FILE** This citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network (ENN), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows anti-Syrian regime protesters carrying a banner during a funeral of a man, who also carried by the protesters, at Kfar Nebel town, in the Idlib province of northern Syria on Nov. 30, 2012. The man was killed by the shelling of the Syrian forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad. (Associated Press/Edlib News Network)

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness at Stormont Castle in Belfast on Dec. 7, 2012. Clinton traveled to Northern Ireland to lend her support to the British province's fragile peace, the frailty of which was underlined by overnight rioting on the eve of her visit and the seizure of a bomb. (Associated Press)

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Egyptian army tanks secure the perimeter of the presidential palace while protesters gather chanting anti president Mohammed Morsi slogans, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Dec. 7, 2012. Egypt's political crisis spiraled deeper into bitterness and recrimination Friday as thousands of Islamist backers of the president vowed vengeance at a funeral for two men killed in bloody clashes earlier this week and large crowds of the president's opponents marched on his palace to increase pressure after he rejected their demands. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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Egyptian protesters opposing president Mohammed Morsi attend Friday prayers beneath with a poster depicting protesters killed in the Egyptian revolution, at Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Dec. 7, 2012. Arabic on the poster reads their names from right "Islam, Jaber, Khalid Said, Emad Effat and Mina Daniel." Thousands of Egyptians took to the streets after Friday midday prayers in rival rallies and marches across Cairo, as the standoff deepened over what opponents call the Islamist president's power grab, raising the specter of more violence. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

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An Egyptian protester opposing president Mohammed Morsi attends Friday prayers at Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Dec. 7, 2012. Thousands of Egyptians took to the streets after Friday midday prayers in rival rallies and marches across Cairo, as the standoff deepened over what opponents call the Islamist president's power grab, raising the specter of more violence. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

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Italian Premier Mario Monti listens to a question during a press conference at the end of a cabinet meeting at Chigi Palace government's office in Rome on Dec. 6, 2012. (Associated Press)

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This Japanese navy air view of smoking U.S. ships during Pearl Harbor attack appeared in a 1942 publication called "The New Order in Greater East Asia," a copy of which has just become available, Oct. 14, 1945 in New York. (AP Photo)

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This is an undated photograph of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who was the commander of Japan's Combined Fleet and planned the attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II. He was gunned down by the U.S. Army Air Force while inspecting the Northern Solomon Islands on April 18, 1943. Yamamoto was born in Japan in 1884 and studied at Harvard University in the U.S. (AP Photo)

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Admiral Husband E. Kimmel was accused by a special commission of dereliction of duty over the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Jan. 24, 1942. (AP Photo)

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Japanese planes over Hawaii during the attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941, are shown in this scene from a Japanese newsreel. The film was obtained by the U.S. War Department and released to U.S. newsreels. (AP Photo/U.S. War Department)

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In this Dec. 7, 1941 file photo, the destroyer USS Shaw explodes after being hit by bombs during the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Wednesday marks the 70th anniversary of the attack that brought the United States into World War II. (AP File Photo)

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The battleship USS Arizona belches smoke as it topples over into the sea during Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941. The ship sank with more than 80 percent of its 1,500-man crew, including Rear Admiral Issac C. Kidd. The attack, which left 2,343 Americans dead and 916 missing, broke the backbone of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and forced America out of a policy of isolationism. President Franklin D. Roosvelt announced that it was "a date which will live in infamy" and Congress declared war on Japan the morning after. This was the first attack on American territory since 1812. (AP Photo)

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt, appearing before a joint session of Congress termed as unprovoked and dastardly the attack by Japan upon Hawaii and the Philippines and asked for an immediate declaration of war, Dec. 8, 1941. (AP Photo)