Why is FDR considered a good prez when he set up concentration camps?
FDR did not originate the idea; that came from the paranoid mind of a super-patriot Admiral (whose name I can’t recall) who commanded the 12th Naval District, aka the West Coast. FDR should have opposed it, of course. But as we can see in our own time it is politically difficult to argue against people like the Admiral. Or anti-Semites, in those days. Before Pearl Harbor the great majority of us thought we should stay out of WWII and let the Europeans handle it themselves; our oceans would protect us.
