Gen. Wesley Clark: Let's Throw Radical Muslims Into Internment Camps

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63. Operation Pastorius

was an attempt by Nazi Germany to land plain clothes German soldiers by submarine in the United States to engage in sabotage of factories, electric plants, and the like. They were confirmed Nazis and had lived in the United States for years, speaking excellent English. Two of them were U.S. citizens. Before their plans could be carried out, they were apprehended, incarcerated, and executed by the Roosevelt Administration. Too bad we couldn't have done the very same thing with the 9/11 saboteurs.

We're living in a difficult time today, engaged in a de facto war with individuals who are de facto soldiers. These radical soldiers going to and from the middle east don't wear uniforms and fight in enemy lines. They don't get drafted and sign oaths with an enemy government that has formally declared war on the United States because there is no conventional Al Qaeda or ISIS government. There are no lines in this war and no one wears a uniform. But these radical Islamists are every bit as sick and murderous as Nazi soldiers were. How do you fight them? You apprehend them before they kill, the way we apprehended Nazi soldiers in plain clothes, some of them U.S. citizens during World War II. I don't like the idea of internment camps and I would hope their intentions have been very clearly understood and evidenced before we segregate them. Of course ISIS "soldiers" are likely to be of any gender or race, so the isolation of known radical Islamists is not racially motivated. ISIS "soldiers" can come from every walk of life, rich and poor Right now there haven't been that many murders of U.S. citizens at the hands of these radical Islamic murderers. But if it gets worse, we may not even be debating the wisdom of locking up crazies who plan killings of people whose only crime is to not support a medieval set of values. I for one do not want to live in a battleground with enemy terrorist soldiers all around me.