[AmericanInTokyo]

Sheesh. And WE'RE trying to "Westernize" and "Democratize" this crap? Sheesh.

[ashtanga]

I wonder every day if we can pull this seventh century cess pit into the seventeenth. After all, in the West our greatest minds began disbelieving in witches in the seventeenth century. I keep telling myself that we threw enough ordinance on Japan and Germany to convince them to play nice for half a century, but these weren't Moose Limb countries. Great tasks lie ahead, none of them clear or hopeful.