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To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (660299)	11/14/2004 8:29:11 PM
From: goldworldnet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I think it is fair to add that Japan today is a peaceful ally with us in Iraq. * * *

To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (660299)	11/14/2004 8:35:47 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

I never thought I'd see a post of yours and think it was the most honest thing said on this thread on the subject. We needed to figure out a way to quickly establish that the Japanese here were in fact not Japanese, but were American. That implies it was necessary to imprison and impoverish them to do that. It also doesn't take into account that this problem had been anticipated and a study had been done of JA's for a couple of years before Pearl Harbor. The study was kept secret. It showed that JA's demonstrated a high degree of loyalty. So I think you are both acknowledging what happened, and backing off a little from it. We had no reason except a long standing racism (I've posted a link to a document on that subject) and the hunger for scapegoats to do what we did, and if the issue had genuinely been a security one, it could have been handled differently. It was handled as it was because those citizens looked like our attackers, and scapegoating feels good to some people, even though it is evil. 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. Again, mirabilis dictu, I agree with you. Any American who looked at the photographs of the 9/11 terrorists got a cold feeling in their heart. We have things to figure out.