Well, so long as we have the freedom of speech, the constitution gives me the right to dare tell the CinC how to do any damned thing I please... :-) I think that you are incorrect as far as the Japanese-Americans go, but we can agree to disagree.
I don't mean to start a flame war, I really don't.
Good. Nor do I.
I was merely trying to express the depth of my belief that sophist-ical arguments over the rights of men have no place in a war for survival. There is no time for that, and I think there are entirely too many amateur lawyers squawking about this or that in this war as well, which I fear will lead to the same sort of paralysis we saw in NO and are seeing in France.
My point with regard to the Japanese-Americans is that there are things which, even if they are effective, are illegitimate. If there are no limits on Governmental power exercised against the innocent, even in times of war and strife, then men have no rights and we are all subject to the whims of the Government, the State or the Collective whim.
With regard to the war on terror and the stuff in France, there it is a problem of not taking action against those who are not innocent. That is the real crux of the problem. The opponents of the current war and the pols in France don't want to take action against the guilty (or at least the suspicious), that, I agree with you whole heartedly, is a problem. But, the disinclination of the Government to bring down the hammer on innocent people is, in my view, an appropriate one.
And what if we had lost WWII to the Japaneses due to the Japanese spies and saboteurs here on our land had they not been interned?
Go back and read how vicious the Japanese were in the rape of Nanking and how they treated other Asian countries on their quest for world domination (at least the Asian part) during the first half of the 20th century. American POWs were skinned alive by the Japanese. They also had medical experiments done on them by the Japanese.
You have to do what you have to do to win a war and that sometimes means restricting the freedoms. Once the war is over you can set everything back to normal. But extreme circumstances require extreme measures to deal with those circumstances effectively.
If the US government had placed the rights of American citizens over the war effort there is no doubt we would have lost.