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Konishi is ichiban left wing media-san.
Mr. Konishi (he's from the U.S., though he has spent some time living in Japan) is egregiously off-base in his assessment. In light of his other writings, such as here at the Mansfield Foundation where he is a program director, where he states:
There is enough blame to go around the Pacific Rim, starting with the United States. The lone superpower's high-handed treatment of others is nothing new and requires little extra description here. Yet U.S. President George W. Bush has elevated this practice to a new level. Bush's infamous "axis of evil" speech carelessly triggered concerns in the region that North Korea was next on the list for regime change after Iraq.
he appears to be quite left-wing, since all of the previous is standard left-wing claptrap.
And his biography, what little of there is since he appears to be a young man, consists only of working for liberal Tom Udall's campaign in 1999. I don't know how one goes from college student to campaign worker to a program director at the Mansfield Foundation, but I cannot see how it could have been on the basis of his writing or analytical skills.
Denying Bush is in trouble is denying factual reality.