Do you think FDR was right to put Japanese in interment camps during World War II?
“Do you think FDR was right to put Japanese in interment camps during World War II?”
That’s actually a good question. I’ve never given it any thought or consideration. The answer would depend on whether those Japanese had Americanized. You see, my grandparents came here from Germany. They refused to even speak German in the home to each other. When they argued they looked up words in the dictionary. The Muslims I know even if they’ve been here more than half their lives or were born here, have not Americanized. They are still trained and are living in a ninth century culture of marrying 13 year old girls. They still talk about killing those who are not Muslims. They don’t do anything about it because, so far, they’re in the minority.
The area bombing campaign in World War two had two drivers. One was technology. They couldn’t hit precision targets. The other was to destroy the base that supported Nazism. That base was the peaceful non-Nazi populace.
I’m not sure you can compare the WW2 Japanese Americans to the Muslims. Also, I strongly suspect that the move was partially motivated by the organized theft of their farms, which resulted from their internment. There were probably other criminal reasons behind it as well. (Yes, the government does criminal things all the time. For example, when they use the law to seize property even though the law was not intended for most of the cases they use it for.)
In addition, I’m not privy to the data that was used in that case.