History has many examples of how, when the survival of their people or nation is at stake, governments must take hard decisions and exercise policies of prudence. When they formed the Japanese blue ribbon division, they sent them to fight in Italy, not in the Pacific. The Soviets in World War II moved Koreans from the border with Korea when they were afraid the Japanese, then in control of Korea, would attack them. When the Germans attacked the Soviet Union from the west, Stalin moved all Germans in the Volga region where they had been for generations, to Kazakhstan. When I went to Kazakhstan in 1991, I found Koreans, Germans and many different nationalities had been moved to central Soviet Union.
Mistakes can be fatal.
Indira Gandhi had full trust in her Sikh officers among her personal guards. Two of them shot her after Indian troops attacked the Sikh sacred temple in Amritsar, as a result of which riots broke out in Delhi and other cities, and thousands of Sikhs died. The courts upheld the decision of the US army. We must never put the person in a situation where he may face a conflict of loyalties. I said in answer to a question some nearly two years ago that it is a difficult matter to put a Malay Muslim of deeply religious family background in charge of a machine-gun.