Comments by "Evan" (@MrEvanfriend) on "The Front" channel.

  1.  @JoshuaAmaro  An Indian reservation isn't an internment camp, though I understand the analogy.
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  2.  @JoshuaAmaro  Indians are allowed to leave reservations, I had a couple friends in the Corps who grew up on reservations.
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  3. That picture at the beginning is the Chinese Nationalists, not the Japanese. The German Stahlhelm ought to be a giveaway. The Japanese Army wore a "mushroom" helmet.
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  4. The "sleeping giant" quote was from an admiral, not a general. Isoroku Yamamoto, who warned the Japanese government that picking a war with the United States was folly, but dutifully planned and executed the Pearl Harbor attack against his better judgment. He also had another quote, which I'm quite fond of - "I would never invade the United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass". You're god damn right there would be.
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  5.  @daleeasternbrat816  Yeah, I know.
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  6.  James Henderson  Either you're being facetious or you have an extremely flawed understanding of history. I hope it's the first one.
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  7.  James Henderson  And bombing isn't a "war crime". What strategy would you have suggested?
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  8.  @marks_sparks1  Yeah, like not "virtue signalling" about their neutrality. A number of American officers resigned their commissions to either fight in China or in Britain, but when the US joined the war, they were integrated right back in. Because instead of "virtue signalling", the US government realized that what those officers had done was worthy.
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  9.  Jerry O Sullivan  Yeah, well China wasn't an enemy, and your point makes zero sense. We aren't talking about guys going to fight for the enemy - that's called treason. We're talking about guys from a neutral nation going to fight for the side that was clearly in the right.
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  10. I believe that Paddy Finucane was a distant cousin of mine. Finucane isn't that common of a name. Audie Murphy? Horseshit. John Basilone was the best American fighter in the war. He was awarded a Medal of Honor for single-handedly defeating a Japanese assault with a machine gun on Guadalcanal - severely burning his hands in the process. He then volunteered to go back to war, and landed on Iwo Jima, where he led his men off the beach under heavy fire. He was killed on Iwo Jima, and awarded a Navy Cross posthumously. But of course Basilone was a Marine, and Marines never get remembered. There was a rather large war in the Pacific as well, you know.
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  11. "Every one" was a sample size of three on a remote island. Not exactly representative of the population as a whole.
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  12.  @davidbrogan606  I agree that there's a problem with people not assimilating, and the three people who did this should have been put up against a wall and shot for treason. That being said, what three people did and the attitudes of an entire ethnic group in the US, most of whom were loyal citizens, are two very different things. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the people responsible for giving nuclear weapons technology to the Soviets, were Jewish. Should all Jews have been put in camps because of the actions of them and a couple of co-conspirators who were also Jewish? There was an American of German descent who helped eight German spies who landed by U-boat. He was executed along with the spies, as was deserved. Should every Schmidt and Muller in the US have been interned? You're talking about trampling the vital constitutional rights of tens of thousands of people because of the bad acts of an insignificant number of individuals. You can't make a good excuse for that.
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  13.  Michael Moretti  I'm fully aware that this was before the Constitution implied term limits, but the two and done was a longstanding tradition dating back to George Washington, and broken by no other president. The fact that FDR was willing to do so says a lot about him.
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  14.  @warpartyattheoutpost4987  It didn't happen, so it doesn't really matter. Who knows what would've happened if it had?
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  15. Seriously? The US was only known for a strong economic contribution? And not, oh, I don't know, defeating Japan almost singlehandedly, establishing previously unseen levels of naval dominance, introducing the nuclear age, or any of the other massive American contributions?
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  16.  @Robbini0  They almost certainly did. But three out of three on a remote Hawaiian island, who hadn't even heard of Pearl Harbor at the time, aren't a good sample.
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  17.  @Robbini0  Saying "the entire population of the region at the time" is misleading - when the entire population is three, that doesn't tell you much. It also doesn't say anything about the Japanese American population at large - how representative were these three of the population at large? Was there anything about them that made them stand out - an especially reasonable question as, as the only three on that particular island, they were already unique in at least that one aspect. They made their choice without any broader community - would they have made the same choice given influence from other Japanese Americans? It's too small a sample size in too unique a situation to be particularly useful in making any broad generalization. Also, it's taken alone, without any broader context. How did the rest of the Japanese population of Hawaii react to the bombing? There sure wasn't a lot of cheering and waving the Rising Sun, to be sure. It's taking an extremely isolated and rather bizarre incident and using that to judge an entire ethnic group. Would you judge all American Jews on Julius and Ethel Rosenberg? You can't judge an entire ethnic group based on an isolated bad act by a small number of members of that group. There is no ideology that comes along with being named Nakamura or whatever. To assume that there is is bad reasoning. And I know it didn't happen until later, but at least a regiment worth of young men enlisted from those camps. Enlisted in the US Army, to fight for America despite the way we'd treated them. That's thousands of men, certainly a far better population sample than three, and from a broader cross section of the Japanese American population, too. Why not judge all Japanese Americans on these men? Also, it wasn't as if Japan was are only enemy. How many guys named Meyer and Schmidt and D'Amico and Rossi fought for the US, in every theater - including against other guys named Meyer and Schmidt and D'Amico and Rossi. Why weren't the Meyers and D'Amicos rounded up as well - it wouldn't have made any less sense.
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  18. @binladen-xp4ob Cute story. It's not, you know, even remotely true, but it's cute that you believe that. Not sure WHY you believe that, even the Army doesn't make that rather ludicrous claim, but hey, you just keep smoking that copium.
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