Quote:Go ahead and link the post where I endorsed interning people as good.

 

If your point is to say that I'm not damning enough of one of the greatest presidents the nation has ever had over a decision made during the worst war the world ever saw, then your point is misguided. I don't need to excuse the internment, I only have to believe that the rest of his presidency was far greater.

 

As Rollerjag stated, if you want to hold presidents to modern standards then most of them would come up short, but we judge them for the time they were in. In FDR's time the internment was seen as necessary.

 

Now we have Bush's surveillance state to keep everyone in a virtual prison all the time instead.