Another Malkin critic, Eric Muller, judges that Ms Malkin has painted herself into a corner:
With this morning’s concession that the concern along the West Coast was Japanese spot raids and not a Japanese assault, she blows up the case for distinguishing between the Japanese threat to the West Coast and the German threat to the East Coast. And along with it, she blows up her claim that military necessity caused the government to take action against American citizens of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast while imposing no restrictions of any sort on American citizens of German ancestry on the East Coast (except insofar as they were dependents of German enemy aliens).
Well, he does skate over the fact that Ms Malkin pointed out that the Germans were harmless because they didn’t have any aircraft carriers, whereas the Japanese had a few free to pester the West Coast. Because, of course, 9 aircraft carriers that managed to sink 6 ships between them on the West Coast are no doubt a much, much greater danger than the 1,170 U-boats that sank 327 ships off the East Coast.
Does she realize that her argument is completely hopeless? Perhaps someone else can explain this to her, because I don’t think I can make it any easier for her.