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Do you believe interning Japanese Americans was also the right thing to do?

 

Lyin' Ted strikes again:
Today on Face the Nation: CRUZ: I can tell you, the last contested convention we had, 1976, Ronald Reagan had a million more votes than Gerald Ford.

Uh, false. Final primary vote count:
Ford: 5,529,899 (53.3%)
Reagan: 4,760,222 (45.9%)
By my count, that's 769,677 more for Ford than for Reagan.
Republican Party presidential primaries, 1976 | Wikiwand

 

That's a really terrible analogy, MC. The interning of Japanese citizens who had remained in the U.S. and had not joined or conspired with the Imperial Japanese forces bears no comparison to killing people who had joined with Al Qaeda in Yemen and Pakistan. And, fyi, only one of those US citizens, Anwar Al-Awlaki, was an actual target and specifically ordered killed.

I did not and will not lose a moment's sleep over any of them.

 

What are Bernie's plans to freeze globalization? Is he going to convince everyone to buy American-made goods at exponentially higher prices? Is he going to impose tariffs and go isolationist like Trump? Do we really need doctorquant to explain the folly of his misplaced populism to him?

 

So you're a big fan of Gitmo?

 

Hillary would have explained all of this to him, but then she decided to pander to the left and oppose TPP -- a deal she had personally worked on.

I'd even settle for a full throated defense of NAFTA from Hillary.

 

Is this bad analogy night?

 

We get it. You support things by the letter. Nothing wrong with being an average American voter.

 

Not until Baron shows up, it's not.

 

Actually, they interred West Coasters and Hawaiians to preclude the possibility they would become enemy combatants or spies, based on little else but ethnic hysteria.

Even still, whether we like it or not, American citizenry comes with certain rights, ostensibly including not getting killed by your government without due process. If they're working with al-Qaida and killing people, find them and surrender them to get convicted.

 

As I understand it we found it too difficult to serve an arrest warrant on Anwar Al-Awlaki at terrorist camp in Yemen, luckily there was sufficient legal justification to target and kill him since we are at war with al-Qaeda and, according to the CIA and Pentagon, Awlaki had “operational and leadership roles” with al-Qaeda and was actively "plotting attacks intended to kill Americans.”