Interesting Washington Post article about the Justice Department's legal strategy against terrorist networks in the US.

Part of this strategy concerns me - the part of holding people without formally charging them of a crime. The article states that each of the people being held has broken the law - typically on an immigration issue. Maybe it'd be better to formally prosecute them and, if they're convicted, use the time they'd be in jail to investigate them on further involvement. Of course, this assumes that there is sufficient evidence that they broke the law to get a conviction and that any conviction would result in significant jail time.

A friend of mine was interred with his family during WWII. He was born in America but his parents were born in Japan, so all of them were interred in the camps. My friend was all of 2 years old at the time. I tell him he must've been a particularily subversive 2 year old (we all know about the "terrible twos") but the point remains that I don't ever want to see a repeat of those days.

Restating what I've posted before, racial profiling against Middle Eastern men isn't likely to be effective when there are a billion Moslems around the world. While we're concentrating on one particular group, the next set of attacks could be launched by Asian Moslems (from places like Indonesia or the Philippines), African Moslems, or some blond-haired blue-eyed guy who lookes like a California surfer.