In Defense of Internment
by Michelle Malkin

In a time of war, Michelle Malkin insists, the survival of the nation must come first. In her provocative new book, In Defense of Internment: The Case for "Racial Profiling" in World War II and the War on Terror, she explains why, contrary to the short-sighted propaganda of self-anointed "civil libertarians," civil liberties are not sacrosanct. The bestselling author of Invasion argues here that the "unalienable rights" that our Founding Fathers articulated in the Declaration of Independence don't appear in random order: Liberty and the pursuit of happiness cannot be secured and protected without securing and protecting life first.

Malkin fearlessly contradicts the Leftist conventional wisdom that anyone who champions profiling and even internment must by definition be a free speech-hating, Bill of Rights-trampling, immigrant-bashing tyrant. In Defense of Internment offers a ringing justification for the most reviled wartime policies in American history: the evacuation, relocation, and internment of people of Japanese descent during World War II. It also defends racial, ethnic, religious, and nationality profiling as effective defensive measures in today's War on Terror.

In Defense of Internment proves that everything you've ever learned about the World War II "internment camps" for Japanese in America is wrong: they weren't the product of racism or war hysteria, they weren't only for Japanese, and they were nothing at all like the Nazi death camps to which they are often compared by craven and opportunistic alarmists on the Left. Malkin not only sets the historical record straight -- she also refutes the arguments of pseudo-historians and sanctimonious liberal analysts who use this distorted history to undermine our crying need for national security profiling.

Malkin is not advocating rounding up all Arabs or Muslims and tossing them into camps -- but she brings a bracing dose of desperately needed common sense and fearlessness to the ongoing debate about the balance between civil liberties and national security.

Says Malkin:
"A nation paralyzed in wartime by political correctness is a nation in peril."

She provides conclusive proof that wartime presidents can't afford to indulge pandering nonsense from those who would make our security secondary to anything: a nation can't stand for anything unless it is still standing. For defending this unalterable truth, argues Malkin, America need not ever apologize. In Defense of Internment will outrage and enlighten you, and radically change the way you view the past -- and the present. Malkin also tells the truth about:

Why religious profiling is an essential tool in a war where the enemies are religious extremists carrying out a religious crusade to kill Americans
The height of politically correct stupidity: how the Pentagon, fearing "profiling" charges in the wake of evidence that Muslim chaplains may have been involved in espionage, chose to review all two thousand eight hundred military chaplains, rather than focusing exclusively on the twelve Muslim chaplains
Inexcusable ignorance: former Attorney General Janet Reno's false 2003 claim that there was absolutely "no record" that any Japanese Americans posed a security threat during World War II
How immediate apprehensions of aliens after Pearl Harbor may have been instrumental in preventing further havoc on American soil (just as the detention of Middle Eastern illegal aliens may have done so following the 9/11 attacks)
Another forgotten bit of history: the February 1942 Japanese attack on Goleta, California -- the first foreign attack on the U.S. mainland since the War of 1812
The $1.65 billion federal reparations windfall for Japanese who were interned in the World War II camps: why it was an unmitigated disaster
How, contrary to liberal hysteria, the Bush administratio