In Defense of Internment

This book by Michelle Malkin was written primarily to promote what most people call "racial profiling" in the war on terror. Most conservatives have no problem with authorities paying more attention to 20 year old Mohammeds at the airport than Ethel the elderly white woman. Whenever this issue has been discussed over the last several years, though, it seems that liberals always manage to bring up Japanese internment in WWII. It is the infallible trump card, like McCarthyism, which Ann Coulter spends an entire book on for the same reason. It is supposed to be universally accepted by all modern people that internment was based purely on racial prejudice and had no possible justification. So, in order to have a discussion on this topic, Michelle wrote a well-researched book on internment in WWII, and shows that everything we learned about it is wrong. The Japanese had a major network of spies on the west coast and Hawaii. They planned for significant help from the Japanese on Hawaii. They put together the effective Pearl Harbor attack using intelligence gathered from Japanese on Hawaii. The internment was a simple relocation of the people away from the west coast. We did not torture them in concentration camps or force hard labor on them. We simply needed to move them to the middle of the continental U.S. for national security reasons. I'm just getting into the main course of this book, so I'll have to fill in more details later. I got this book from the public library. It is controversial, highly recommended, and will make you think and question many of the things you've learned.