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2006-12-16 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Fred 2006-12-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Bu How, as the Chinese would say...

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-12-16 00:35|| 2006-12-16 00:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Good for them!

Posted by gromgoru 2006-12-16 06:02|| 2006-12-16 06:02|| Front Page Top

#3 I have seriously mixed feelings about this.

On the one hand, timetable for Japan/China hostilities is guesstimated as 5 years or under.

On the other hand, World War II is clearly remembered, the Japanese are not the nice polite fiction portrayed.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-12-16 08:29|| 2006-12-16 08:29|| Front Page Top

#4 At this point we need to take any ally who is prepared to fight. Japan in one of its twenty year manic phases will get very ugly it is true. But that ugliness may be a better defense of civilization than the soft hands of Belgium or (spit) France.

Posted by Excalibur 2006-12-16 08:46|| 2006-12-16 08:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Redneck Jim:

Remember when the Iraqi Islamist scum murdered a Japanese volunteer relief worker? I believe they gave him the old beheading.

What was the reaction in Japan? Shock, rage, which then turned to "why do they hate us" and "this is Bush's fault."

I prefer the Japan that keeps the rage and proceeds to act out by killing off as many of the Jihadi scum as humanly possible.

Posted by Lancasters Over Dresden 2006-12-16 09:12|| http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp]">[http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp] 2006-12-16 09:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Banzai!

Posted by Lancasters Over Dresden 2006-12-16 09:12|| http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp]">[http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp] 2006-12-16 09:12|| Front Page Top

#7 Japan on Friday created a full-fledged Defence Ministry for the first time since World War II,

Biggest strategic change since the fall of the Russian Empire?

Posted by Shipman 2006-12-16 09:43|| 2006-12-16 09:43|| Front Page Top

#8 I think the more important facet of this is the schools being required to teach patriotisim. We won't see the effects of this for a while, but when we do, look for a much more agressive Japan.

Posted by bombay">bombay 2006-12-16 10:12|| 2006-12-16 10:12|| Front Page Top

#9 We're in a big poker game, so ya gotta play your cards well. Japan becomes our ace to relieve pressure from China's threat. When Japan stands up, ChiComs and even Putin will be forced to rethink their entire scenario. There is no way in hell Chinese can ignore a rearmed Japan. They know, that unlike mere US bluster, a false move with Japan will have real consequences.

Posted by SpecOp35 2006-12-16 11:58|| 2006-12-16 11:58|| Front Page Top

#10 I await the day the YAMATO is raised and refitted!
_________BANZAI!

Posted by borgboy 2006-12-16 18:45|| 2006-12-16 18:45|| Front Page Top

#11 While I agree with the "Trust, but verify" attitudes here, I think a re-armed Japan is nothing but good for us. They look to us for a market, have been "pacified" for over 50 years now, and would make a GREAT counter to China and NKor. When India jumps in our boat too, watch all the Chicom's sphincters tighten (Pooty-Poot's too). I'm just about sick and tired of all the "under the table" shiite going on between China and Russia and the rest of our enemies (Iran, N Korea, heck, even though they're not our "enemy", Zimbobwe too). We need to start gettin allies in their neck of the woods to start "actin' up" too. Keeps them pre-occupied on their own back yard.

Posted by BA 2006-12-16 21:15|| 2006-12-16 21:15|| Front Page Top

#12 And talks with Norks about nukes start Monday. Wonder what the Japanese have up their sleeve for that.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-12-16 21:26|| 2006-12-16 21:26|| Front Page Top

#13 Hmmm, learning from the Islamics?
That's exactly what's happening to us and our allies now.
Good idea.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-12-16 21:31|| 2006-12-16 21:31|| Front Page Top

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