Futenma Marine Corps Air Station
Okinawa, Japan
My 'home' , MAG36, 11/73 - 11/74
Posted on 05/16/2005 1:32:46 PM PDT by Bald Eagle777
Man, for a second I thought these were Star Wars fans.
give them what they want. keep new london open and close this base. they'll be crying like puerto rico is doing now that they got their wish...
Okay we'll leave and they can deal with China on their own.
Not really. Everytime we pull back from our responsibilities around the world the native populations screw things up so badly it costs us billions and lives to fix it.
We're staying until China, North Korea, and all the terrorist scumbags have been dealt with. Get used to it, and continue enriching yourselves by our presence.
So 25k people showed up, what about the other 2 million people on the island who are in favor of the US staying and in fact building the new base?
One-sided reporting as usual.
Move the whole shebang to Australia. You'll have Marines stabbing each other for that deployment!
I wonder how many of the 26,000 were Main Landers.
they just want the land the base sits on so they can populate every square inch.
I say give it to them and let them protect themselves from Kim Jong Ill
As with Puerto Rico, if they get what they want and the base closes, they will then bitch about the loss of economic activity provided by the base.
The US should never have 'given back' this island we won fair and square.
I must admit I do feel sorry for the Okinawans. They always got the short end of the stick from the Japanese, the worst fighting on their soil in the war and then the Japanese government doesn't care if they're discommoded by US Operations.
Where operational relaities permit it, I would like to see Okinawan operations reduced and reopened elsehwere in Japan. After this many years though it's less feasible than it might have been...
Too late. We've closed a half dozen bases already, torn down the housing areas and Post Exchanges, etc.
I propose a compromise. They can have it back if they can take it back.
In the interest of full disclosure, I should let them know that our Navy doesn't sleep in on Sundays anymore....
heh heh...
I laughed out loud. Rock on!
A pity they weren't immediately replaced by larger facilities on the main Japanezse islands....
I wonder how long it will tak ethem to become fluent in Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese?)
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