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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?

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.

"Japanese weren't interred,"

No, they weren't killed and buried. They were INTERNED. When you accuse others of inaccurately using the language and then do this..... LOL The same kind of "internment" faced by Allied personnel caught in neutral countries....

"that we locked up American citizens for being born of the wrong ethnicity."

We "locked up" (actually, transported from sensitive areas) first generation foreign born Japanese AND Germans and Italians (something you keep forgetting). Their 2nd generation went with them. Quite a few PATRIOTIC Japanese Nisei understood this and why it had to happen.

"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. "

My grandfather served in the Pacific Theater. He had a different perspective. You know, you're pretty sanctimonious about a subject you know little about. I'd suggest a little bit of research. Start with MAGIC (classified at the time and not something your father would have been aware of then). I would bet you'd prefer to parrot MSM assumptions instead.

For starters, let's accurately use the language. Japanese weren't interred, they were deported. Americans of Japanese descent were interred.

Quibble. To Americans a Japanese was a Japanese, and they were killing their sons. You're 60 years from the event.

Your point is?

There were women who breathed a sigh of relief when Japanese were interred. You could have polled the women who has sons in the Pacific theater and I doubt you would have collected more than a dozen who were against the interment.

Don't blame it on your father. The American President had war powers, and they were used. You had better believe that he would have been skinned alive, along with the Japanese individual that was left rooming the country.

Your father was in the vast minority. It was decades after the war that liberal groups started this bleeding heart whining about the interment of Japanese peoples. It didn't start sooner because Americans still remembered the commonsense of the act, like the bilge about dropping a nuke on Japan.

It's awful handy to be safe to criticize six decades ofter the event, yes?