Posted on 03/29/2009 8:00:37 PM PDT by jmcenanly
Japan gave its military the green light on Friday to shoot down any incoming North Korean rocket, with tensions high ahead of a planned launch that the US and allies say will be an illegal missile test.
Japanese and US warships have already deployed ahead of the April 4-8 window, when the secretive North has said it will launch a communications satellite -- warning that shooting it down would be seen as an act of war.
But South Korea, Japan and the United States have all warned the North that any launch would be unacceptable, amid fears the regime is actually intending to test a long-range missile that could reach North America.
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Kind of ironic that now the Japanese are the ones with the cajones to intervene against a missile that could hit Hawaii.
How come the Japanese Star Wars defense is apparently functional, while the US is not, at least according to Democrats?
I wonder if the Japanese understand that anyone working with Obama can be thrown under the bus at the first sign of poor public relations.
People tend to forget that we are
still in a state of war with North Korea
the armistice signed on July 27, 1953
only stopped the direct military action
He broke them over and over again.
We had a reason and a right to go back into battle with him at any time even without the WDM’s that he had.
Japan ready to lead in Pacific if USA says “Call me if you need me”
Well...
North Korea IS in their backyard
Good.
I just mean ironic in the sense that the Japanese bombed Hawaii, and now they are the ones with the rhetoric to condemn it.
Dunno.
They only need to defend against one missile, and we need to defend against all the others?
Isn’t this against the japanese constitution though?
During WWII the Japanese government taught their people that black men were all cannibals and would be eating men, women and children alive.
That's why folks were tossing themselves off cliffs.
I seriously doubt they've changed their beliefs.
We have to realize that the two largest Japanese "settlements" abroad are in Brazil (in Sao Paulo) and in Hawaii. I suppose the Japanese Japanese feel a moral obligation of sorts to come to the defense of Japanese Americans and Japanese Brazilians.
At least they feel an obligation to do something Obama doesn't.
Most likely the NKs will try to hit Hawaii.
Those are our SM-3 Block 1A Standard missiles with Mark 21 Mod 2 canisters (a.k.a. Patriot 3) systems on Japanese ships. In other words, it’s a version of our system that we sold to them and developed to be compatible with their fire control. The system works, but is still in development to meet the level of capability that we desire.
We should drop a small nuke on the thing before it gets off the ground. Won’t be anyone in the vicinity except Dear Leader’s loyal and well-fed military.
As well as the “backyard” of 70,000 US troops on Japanese soil at bases from Aomori to Okinawa, and nearly 100,000 American civilians (yours truly included).
Obama is not making this any easier and is liable to alienate further; how ironic. His Chamberlain approach is going to have the opposite effect.
> That war is long over and at least 8 out of 10 Japanese I would say like Americans individually, Americans as a group, and the USA as a country.
We liked you Yanks before and after the WW2. We still do, unlike some misguided leftist fools in Western Europe. Every time the Chinese dictators, warlords and commies tried to overtake the foreign enclaves in Shanghai, we were the ones protecting the British, French, etc. We were on your side during the WW1 and our navy flying the same rising sun flag was protecting the allied transport vessels between Australia and Africa. I prefer malfunctioning American democracy to any medieval non-states in the third world. American “imperialism” is way better than the Russians or the Chinese bossing around the world.
Having lived in Europe for 7+ years, I am quite pissed off by the socialist surrender monkeys.
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