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To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (645910)	10/19/2004 1:47:00 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 769670

Well, you see, you are thinking. When people are fearing for their lives, they tend not to think, but go after the clearest indicator of the threat against them - whether it is right or wrong. The Japanese at the time were nowhere as integrated in American society as they are today. They were probably considered "American Japs," but "Japs" nevertheless. So when the Japanese bombed us, it was just natural to suspect the Japanese amongst us. Our general views on non-whites were a lot cruder than today. This boorishness combined with our natural and legitimate fears to cause us to act as we did. Thank you. That's essentially my argument. It was a racist decision. The Japanese hit us and hit us broadly and very hard. If they hit us THAT hard, how is it that just 6 months later we were able to essentially cripple the Japanese fleet at Midway? I even think some of it could have been done legitimately. Some? Yeah. Criminal charges you could actually make stand up. What was actually done? No way. Hawaii is not on the mainland. Its isolation alone likely caused Japanese there to appear quite a bit less of a threat than Japanese elsewhere. Hawaii was a territory of the United States- -eligible to become a state. And this was a naval war. Its isolation way out there in the Pacific made it more vulnerable, not less.