[beatnavy]

The internment may not have been the country's finest moment, but I don't fault the leaders for doing what they thought needed to be done under the circumstances. I hate the 20/20 hindsight historical revisionism BS.

To Sammy's point: last summer I read a library copy of the "The Forgotten Highlander," a biography of a scots soldier imprisoned after the fall of Singapore. Early in the book where he first starts detailing the horrors the POWs suffered at the hands of the Japanese captors, someone had scrawled in the margin "And they wonder why we dropped the bomb." I had to laugh at that in spite of the subject matter.