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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (30797)10/4/2001 7:30:51 PM
From: St_Bill  Read Replies (2) of 82486
 
There is so much I don't understand.

Your'e arguing that in retrospect what we did to Japanese Americans was wrong but at the time, understandable.

I think I do understand our behavior.

I also think we created more misery than is generally known and that if we knew more about what we did to these people we might find it less excusable? Those camps were nothing like Bergin-Beltzin I know. Still

Nevertheless, On the morning of 9/11 I remember standing beside the enormous boat I was working on, listening to the radio broadcasting news of the first collapse and thinking outloud that this must have been what it was like to hear about Pearl Harbor.

A popular question has been whether that comparison or analogy makes sense.

In some ways it certainly doesn't and this you point out. I explained this to my wife -- that in 1941 we were attacked by a country that had a bigger army, navy (who had figured out that battle ships weren't all they were cracked up to be) and air force than we. The Taliban is not so well-equipped.

It seems clear to me that we should not round up all Arab-Americans. And this, I think, remains clear to most people.But is this because the situation is different or that we have changed since Pearl Harbor? And if we have changed, Are we better now or worse?
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