Posted on 02/15/2017 6:51:10 PM PST by PJ-Comix
Excuse me, Newsweek, but who was ultimately responsible for establishing the Manzanar internment camp along with the other such camps which interned Japanese U.S. residents along with Japanese-American citizens during World War II?
If you read this February 15 article by Newsweek senior writer Alexander Nazaryan you would think President Donald Trump who was born a year after that war ended was somehow responsible rather than the real culprit, President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
In fact, Nazaryan mentions Trump 26 times in the story while FDR appears only 3 times. Most bizarrely, FDR is compared favorably to Trump in the one time Nazaryan really focuses on him:
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I have made some liberals enraged, when mentioning that FDR was a Democrat; that liberal icon FDR was the one who authorized the internment camps.
Facts are stubborn things. Liberals come out with this Trump is Hitler crap but are enraged if you point out certain facts of history.
Yes, facts are tough to refute.
Good job.
Germans and Italians were interned also —Fort Meade was originally such a center during WW2.
Joe DiMaggio’s SanFran father’s fishing-boat was locked up during the war, they worried about people contacting U-boats.
After the smoke of Pearl Harbor cleared they naturally took a much greater interest in the clutch of Japanese cables that arrived right before the attack:
They treated details of attacks on US defense industry factories and it is reasonable that such attacks would have used recent arrival Japanese-Americans.
This is never discussed because it’s unpleasant and at the time this would have involved disclosing the fact that Japanese codes had been broken.
FDR put my mother-in-law in Manzanar and Ronald Reagan signed her reparations.
I sold newspapers at Birmingham G.I. hospital in Van Nuys CA during the war. I remember seeing Italian and Germans doing yard work there, wearing striped uniforms with a great big P on the back. They were very happy to be there.
I’m sure all four readers were quite impressed.
FDR persecuted American citizens, Trump has done nothing of the kind.
Which was worse? The internment camps, or Hiroshima and Nagasaki? I would submit that the latter two were in a different category, certainly in terms of the infliction of human suffering.
But you have to understand that it was The War. The War superseded everything. It was the only reality. All of this post-historical backbiting is pathetic, and meaningless as far as I’m concerned.
I think criticizing the democrap scumbag and falsely sainted FDR for illegally interring American citizens is perfectly reasonable.
Well, I don't. I can understand the demurrals of his sainthood, but history is history. The War was won. American prosperity vaulted to new and unthought of levels.
This was the world that I was born into, and it continues in that fashion, to this very day, I might say. I suppose I might think of something that contradicts this, but I would have to strain my brain.
He buried them? That IS bad. I thought he just detained then in camps.
They could have been interned in caves.
Doh!
;-D
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