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Did Franklin Roosevelt get it right in regards to interning 110,000 Japanese Americans? Was it based on war hysteria? Fear? Racism?
I believe the Roosevelt administration had it right based on the intelligence at the time. It was to prevent the threat of 5th Column activity and espionage. The fact is many of those interned were not even Japanese Americans, many were allowed to voluntarily leave the camp early and many did while many stayed voluntarily.
Going by U.S. intelligence, the Japanese were infiltrating/breaching our defense and recruiting Japanese Americans and ethnic Japanese residents. I'm sure some of the reasoning to intern the Japanese was racist, but I believe the majority of it was based on sound and objective reasoning.
Was interning the Japanese during WW2 the right response?
It was reactionary reasoning and that is rarely ever "sound and objective".
That said, why do I get the impression that this thread is really about inciting criticism of a Dem president?
Did Franklin Roosevelt get it right in regards to interning 110,000 Japanese Americans? Was it based on war hysteria? Fear? Racism?
I believe the Roosevelt administration had it right based on the intelligence at the time. It was to prevent the threat of 5th Column activity and espionage. The fact is many of those interned were not even Japanese Americans, many were allowed to voluntarily leave the camp early and many did while many stayed voluntarily.
Going by U.S. intelligence, the Japanese were infiltrating/breaching our defense and recruiting Japanese Americans and ethnic Japanese residents. I'm sure some of the reasoning to intern the Japanese was racist, but I believe the majority of it was based on sound and objective reasoning.
Did Franklin Roosevelt get it right in regards to interning 110,000 Japanese Americans? Was it based on war hysteria? Fear? Racism?
I believe the Roosevelt administration had it right based on the intelligence at the time. It was to prevent the threat of 5th Column activity and espionage. The fact is many of those interned were not even Japanese Americans, many were allowed to voluntarily leave the camp early and many did while many stayed voluntarily.
Going by U.S. intelligence, the Japanese were infiltrating/breaching our defense and recruiting Japanese Americans and ethnic Japanese residents. I'm sure some of the reasoning to intern the Japanese was racist, but I believe the majority of it was based on sound and objective reasoning.
No more morally just than nuking 200,000 of them into a hell on earth.
Completely different questions with completely different ethical components. Let's not sidetrack this thread.
I disagree, I think they are comparable in multiple ways:
1) They both occurred in WWII.
2) They both befell the Japanese people.
3) They were both carried out by American Presidents.
4) They are both ignorant.
Using that logic we could discuss virtually any topic which occurred during the Second World War depending on your vantage point. Why don't we avoid derailing this thread and set up a separate topic for the atomic bombings if you want to discuss it.
Wrong, because not 'virtually any topic which occurred during the Second World War' includes fascistic mass-executions of Japanese native-born and ethnic-minorities by American Presidents.
I disagree, I think they are comparable in multiple ways:
1) They both occurred in WWII.
2) They both befell the Japanese people.
3) They were both carried out by American Presidents.
4) They are both ignorant.
Have you ever taken a look---a serious look--- at the projected casualties for Operation Downfall?
Hell by dropping the atomic bombs thousands of lives were saved in the end
You call it a victory getting to that point? A phyrric victory at best. But when those are your two options, it is not outrageous to say one '****ed up'...
There is a world of difference in that though. One can acknowledge the necessity of the action while still mourning the insanity that caused it to become necessary in the first place.
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