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You don't think that interring Japanese saved a lot of Japanese lives? It did. The anger of Americans after the bombing of Pearl was unthinking, and understandable. A number of Japanese never made it to the camps. Would you have seen more of that?

Here you are, 60 years after the fact, judging the consequences of war, a war in which a lot of American mother's son were killed. And every mother of a soldier stayed at home waiting for that telegram.

You had better believe that any little action that could increase the chance of her beloved boy returning home would be done and she'd be behind it 100%

Who knew which of the resident Japanese wouldn't pass information or coordinate a population attack? It's real easy for you, in hindsight, to know there were no attacks on this country, but the people then certainly didn't know.

Your ignorance of threat conditions in the past makes you incompetent to hold an opinion of another probable threat today.

You don't think that interring Japanese saved a lot of Japanese lives? It did. The anger of Americans after the bombing of Pearl was unthinking, and understandable. A number of Japanese never made it to the camps. Would you have seen more of that?

For starters, let's accurately use the language. Japanese weren't interred, they were deported. Americans of Japanese descent were interred. It stings a helluva lot worse when you drop the facade that we interred foreigners (we did not) and state unequivocally that we locked up American citizens for being born of the wrong ethnicity.

Here you are, 60 years after the fact, judging the consequences of war, a war in which a lot of American mother's son were killed. And every mother of a soldier stayed at home waiting for that telegram.

Your point is? Or rather what does this have to do with suspending the constitutional rights of Americans for having the wrong skin tone? For the record, my father, now departed was off fighting that war. It was he, a decorated veteran and purple heart recipient on Omaha who first taught me that what did to Americans of Japanese descent was criminal. So don't hide behind the flag, it won't wash with me, I know better.

Your ignorance of threat conditions in the past makes you incompetent to hold an opinion of another probable threat today.

Oh please, your rubbish only sounds competent to you because you simply don't know any better. Genuinely moral ideas are just beyond your ability to grasp so they only seem incompetent to you.

Who knew which of the resident Japanese wouldn't pass information or coordinate a population attack? It's real easy for you, in hindsight, to know there were no attacks on this country, but the people then certainly didn't know

The Japanese managed to seize two Aleutian Islands early in the war. If the Japanese had managed to install an airstrip from which to refuel planes, all it would have taken to enable jap bomber access to much of the West Coast would be to have a Jap agent in the Northwest show up with a truck full of fuel on an isolated road that could be used on a landing strip.