AOG - ///// I hate war but we're directly in the middle of one. ///
And I do since I have lived through a World War, but at least in those days we knew who the enemy were and not frightened to deal with them, in case it might upset some in this country.
Never once heard anyone ever say at that time, not all Germans, Italians and Japanese are bad. //
You know as well as I do that the two scenarios only have the tenuous and inaccurate use of the word 'war' to link them - in all other aspects they are completely different.
Neither Germany Italy or Japan had large numbers of citizens legally living and working in the UK among the population.
Furthermore, declarations of war were defined on individual nations politically, and formally, and do not equate with a terrorist system that operates from a stateless organisation.
So really, the comparison is invalid in my view.