Bad Metaphor Alert

Someone at the International Herald Tribune needs to see "Tora! Tora! Tora!"

On a story today about Asian-Americans becoming a powerful force in California politics, the headline reads: "The sleeping giant in California politics." As many people will recognize, this is the phrase allegedly uttered by Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto after his forces attacked Pearl Harbor: "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."