[ableChair]

"What do the internment camps in the US have to do with the Japanese experiments?"

Everything. It demonstrates, by historical evidence, how differently the U.S. treats prisoners/internees. It juxtaposes the barbarity of totalitarian regimes against the relative civility of American practices. It speaks volumes about the character of the people we were fighting. Arguing against that is to be in denial, or simply a nihilist.

[billybudd]

I agree completely. I only wanted to say that we should judge our government's actions by our own standards of right and wrong, not by what the Japanese or anyone else did. I think it's wrong to say that because the US acted better than the Japanese, that the US actions were OK. They weren't. But I also think it's wrong to say that because the US made a mistake, that it's somehow an unforgivable evil, a reason to reject the US, rather than rejecting the mistake.