Hasn’t North Korea done that sufficiently well for us this past year?
What is it they don’t get anyway this is a purely defensive weapon.
I guess it’s the US Army they don’t like.
They'd change their attitude if the nukes were flying out of North Korea. That's the problem with parlor socialism and its sissy sister pacifism. Some folks actually start to believe their delusional rhetoric.
They probably don't even realize that the PAC-3s will be protecting their protesting backsides too. That if there's an inbound, they will probably make the shoot / don't-shoot decision early on in the engagement. (to give maximum time to the end battery for a best possible engagement) This will be while the impact footprint is still a fairly large oval. So even if the missile is targeted at say a civilian population center, the PAC-3s will be fired...
Do Okinawa’s inhabitants still want us off their island? If so, we can always put our Patriot systems back on the freighter and send them to Israel, they will be appreciated there.
Ungrateful ingrates.
As a generality, Okinawa usually functions in leftist opposition to the Japanese mainland majority and uses protest to just about anything the Japanese government does in the national defense sphere as a reason to organize demonstrations and protests. This behavior generally leads to some concession from the central government to pacify the Okinawans, which, in turn enriches at least some Okinawans; this enrichment, in turn, keeps the opposition in political power in Okinawa while, paradoxically, an extraordinary concentration of U.S. military enjoys an excellent strategic position on the good old USS Okinawa. Contingency plans to abandon Okinawa are know to exist, and the Okinawans would not go so far in upsetting the status quo as to trigger large scale American departure, for should that occur, Okinawa would be impoverished and irrelevant.