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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: E who wrote (660296)11/14/2004 8:19:03 PM
From: Johannes Pilch  Read Replies (2) of 769670
 
Nope. I guess an argument can be made that we were afraid the Japanese would leave and become combatants. But I would never make this argument. I think the truth is, we were real mad at the Japanese after PH and, since we had some of them here and since the times did not really allow for our getting to know and marry them as freely as we do today, the American Japanese were isolated and vulnerable. So we hammered them.

I think there were some legitimate fears concerning them, however. When you have a group in the country that you do not know and then people looking like them suddenly kill and wound 2500 Americans, it is just natural to turn your attention upon those who look like the killers.

I understand why we acted as we did. Don't agree with it. But I also don't think we should have sat around and acted as if the Japanese here were not Japanese. We needed to figure out a way to quickly establish that the Japanese here were in fact not Japanese, but were American. Had we figured that out, I think it would have gone very far to protect the Japanese. It would also help us in these times. We have not yet figured this out. So, I think the future will hold some really savage times for everyone, especially for the semitic peoples over the globe.
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