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To: staytrue
"But you just can not be in favor of summary internment."

Time was of the essence. I don't think any American leaders were happy about or proud of the necessity to segregate Japanese Americans, but I also do not think they had any kind of alternative to doing just that. Given the immediacy of the crisis, their abject fear of further and more devastating attacks HERE and their knowledge of limited available US military resources and or lack of confidence in US military readiness...well, what else could they do in a hurry???
68 posted on 12/28/2004 10:52:33 AM PST by SMARTY ("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else." Lucius Septimus Severus to his sons)
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To: SMARTY
Time was of the essence

Ok, how come no one bothered looking at the internees and releasing them as time permitted. You keep desperatly trying to come up with arguments to support and unsupportable position. Instead, you could just modify you views.

70 posted on 12/28/2004 10:56:50 AM PST by staytrue
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To: SMARTY; hchutch
Time was of the essence.

The standard excuse of tyrants. "Time is of the essence! Do not waste valuable time thinking about what we're doing, you must ACT NOW OR ELSE WE ARE DOOMED!"

I don't think any American leaders were happy about or proud of the necessity to segregate Japanese Americans, but I also do not think they had any kind of alternative to doing just that.

Well, there wasn't anything else that would allow the political cronies of various California Democrats to loot the property of Americans of Japanese descent.

Given the immediacy of the crisis, their abject fear of further and more devastating attacks HERE and their knowledge of limited available US military resources and or lack of confidence in US military readiness...well, what else could they do in a hurry???

You do realize that had the Clinton Administration adopted that attitude on April 19th, 1995, you and I would still be locked up in a "temporary detention camp" right now?

73 posted on 12/28/2004 11:01:45 AM PST by Poohbah (God must love fools. He makes so many of them...)
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