Both are horrendous events in evil. Yet the bombing of Pearl Harbor was a military strike, targeting not civilians but enemy militia. The use of surprise and subterfuge has always been an accepted art of war.
The incarceration of Japanese Americans, however, though lesser in scale, may be worse in type. Before you jump on me, yes, more people died in Pearl Harbor. But this incarceration was the act of a nation imprisoning its very own people for no justifiable reason.
Think about which is worse: America's pre-emptive attack on Iraq, or if police suddenly broke into your home tonight and shuttled you away to Alaska simply because you are black or latino or female.
2006-08-15
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