[AFPhys]

I don't believe it is clear that the interment camps were "mistakes". If even 0.01% of those Japanese jailed had a tendency to be enemy agents, jailing them saved untold American lives, and may have cut years from the war.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

I don't believe it is clear that the interment camps were "mistakes". If even 0.01% of those Japanese jailed had a tendency to be enemy agents, jailing them saved untold American lives, and may have cut years from the war.

Still, we didn't inter those with German or Italian ancestry, and we still managed to defeat them . . . before we defeated Japan.

[mainepatsfan]

It was smart to send the Americans of Japanese descent to fight in Europe. They kicked the hell out of the Germans.

[E Rocc]

I don't believe it is clear that the interment camps were "mistakes". If even 0.01% of those Japanese jailed had a tendency to be enemy agents, jailing them saved untold American lives, and may have cut years from the war.

Nonsense. The total number of US citizens of Japanese descent convicted of espionage: zero.

Even Hoover was against internment.

-Eric