Michelle Malkin

[Ishmael]

Originally Posted by August

Uhm, the WW2 101st was an Airborne Division made up primarily of white guys. Perhaps you're thinking of the 100th Infantry Battalion?

You are correct sir. It was the 100th Infantry Battalion. Here's a link to their website.

http://www.njahs.org/research/442.html

My main point, however, is that there never was any organised sabotage comitted by the Japanese. Most ironic for me was that some of the internment camps were in New Mexico where the Navajo Code Talkers were formed specifically for the Pacific war, not to mention Los Alamos and the Manhattan Project.

I can only contrast that with the German U-boat effort, Drumbeat, which also included landing saboteurs on the East Coast of the US. Some of those saboteurs were to contact members of the same German-American Bund I have mentioned previously. Also, some members of the Bund returned to Germany,were recruited into the SS and used in the Battle of the Bulge.

Regarding Japanese raids/invasion of the US, Japanese strategic doctrine was concerned with securing the raw materials of East Asia, not an invasion of the West Coast. In fact, the Attu & Kiska invasions were only a diversion meant to draw US naval forces away from the Midway area prior to that battle. The fact that the US had broken the IJN naval codes and had advance knowledge of this fact contributed to the decisive victory at Midway. The subsequent expeditions to reclaim those outposts in the Aleutians, which my father took part in, were started after the Midway battle was concluded.

I have an original copy of the Internment Order that I picked up at an antiques store some years back. These people were basically given 24 hours at most to take care of their own affairs before being shipped out, mostly allowed one suitcase of personal effects. So I find Miss Malkin's arguments disingenuous in this case, as I find most of her arguments on most subjects. Perhaps if she had joined what Bill Mauldin called,"The grand & glorious fraternity of them that got shot at", like the members of the 442/100, then I might give her opinions more credence and weight. But then that seems to be the motif of most of these right-wing opinionaters. They're great cheerleaders for a war as long as they don't have to fight in it. But such is the way of the children of privledge, military service is for suckers, poor people and democrats.