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RULING LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY (ruling Conservative Party) IN JAPAN STARTS INTERNAL DEBATE ON REVISING JAPAN LAW TO ALLOW FOR ATTACKS ON "ENEMY BASES WHICH THREATEN JAPAN"

HERE link to breaking Japanese report today. Well, this was to be expected. They will do this as well as start to move to scrap Article 9 of their Constitution which General MacArthur drafted to keep Japan a postwar- pacifist nation. They have had enough of North Korea next door and apparantly (some) want Japanese parliamentary law ammended to allow them to preemptively go in and destroy a rocket on the pad if they have reason to believe they are seriously being threatened. As it is now, their Self Defense Forces law allows for PAC-3 and AEGIS type defensive mode once the thing has been launched. But they want to push the envelope and become a "regular" nation, it seems.

Who can blame them to start on this parliamentary discussion just one full day after Chia Pet launched that damned thing?

Clearly Japan knows it is now on its own. They arent stupid. They are realists. They pay close attention. They micro analyze everything. They know strength. They know weakness. The respect the former. They disdain and look down on the latter. It is very verticle with the Japanese when it comes to power and respect.

I even heard a Japanese commentator on live national Japanese TV yesterday, as the news was breaking (the missile had been sent up only 20 minutes or so earlier) and his exact quote, I kid you not:

"Well, the reality is that Obama is now their president, and also, they just don't have the money anymore for this". He was referring to war if necessary with North Korea on an Asian front.

AIT,

Elections have consequences, and not just in the United States. Other governments have pegged him correctly as a weakling and will act in their own best interests.