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.

America Alone

I was the first person in Cedar Rapids to check out America Alone by Mark Steyn from the public library. I made them dig it out of their back room where it was waiting to be shelved for the first time. It is a very popular book amongst conservatives right now. His understanding of the overall social and political movements at work in the world is very good. The book is a bit depressing, yet witty and funny too. He discusses the dying welfare states, dying liberalism, and the conservatives who will be left to fight Islamofascism on their own. America's friends of the past are dead societies already infiltrated by the enemy. We must stand alone and fight or be conquered siliently through a multicultural acceptance of an intolerant and violent religion. My grandchildren may wake up every morning to a call to prayer towards Mecca. They may be safe on the streets only in Muslim attire. They may be killed for their profession of Christianity. Looking at Europe today we see it isn't so far off here unless our course changes significantly. Mark Steyn's analysis of this worldwide battle for future existence is excellent. Check it out.