Re: #30
“Among the Japanese who went to the internment camps were many emperor-worshippers of dubious loyalty. The many innocent suffered with a significant number of the disloyal. To put it bluntly, better that the few suffer than that the people perish. Besides, the loyal Japanese earned our lasting respect by rushing to volunteer to fight our enemies with a fierceness almost unrivaled by other regiments.”
I know they earned our respect, but FDR’s actions earned us nothing but their disrespect. I am quite frankly surprised that any volunteered after their families were put into concentration camps. There were also plenty of non-Japanese enemy sympathizers, especially the German-American Bund. We did not put German-Americans in concentration camps, and the vast majority served loyally with other Americans.
The Germans didn’t attack us the way the Japanese did. In fact Hitler showed considerable restraint in the face of our overt aid to Great Britain. Ourfleet was badly crippled. There was nothing except the lack of a desire to do so, or logistics or his failure to bag our carriers, that kept Yamamoto’s fleet from sailing to the West Coast and attacking our ports. Those in the know were in a panic, and rightly so. I am gratified that most Japanese stayed loyal, especially those in Hawaii, and a feel for the many injustices done to them by opportunists, but such things happen in war. Sherman treated Southerners far worse than we did the Japanese during WWII.
As far as treatment of Germans as an enemy, you need to bone up on the treatment of Germans during WWI. Besides,during WWII many suspicious Germans and Italians were rounded up after we went to war with those countries, more or less as Muslims were after 9/11.