tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17908317.post113053759517589072..comments2024-03-28T03:15:14.875-07:00Comments on Unenumerated: Civil liberties in the forever warNick Szabohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16820399856274245684noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17908317.post-1133717114129176942005-12-04T09:25:00.000-08:002005-12-04T09:25:00.000-08:00How can you compare the Holocaust and Korematsu? A...How can you compare the Holocaust and Korematsu? And more than that, you treat both as excesses of wartime justice -- i.e. undesirable side-effects of military strategy.<BR/><BR/>There is a fundamental difference here -- according to most historians other than David Irving, the Holocaust (and general oppression of Jews) was one of Hitler's goals, something he planned for its <BR/>would have pursued without the war, and indeed might have used the war to advance.<BR/><BR/>OTH, noone would argue that FDR went to war in order to execute his pre-planned persecution of Japanese-Americans.<BR/><BR/>The bottom line is that as in most discussions, you hurt your argument rather than advancing it when you bring up the Holocaust.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com