Posted on 09/15/2009 8:40:39 PM PDT by Lorianne
Yukio Hatoyama, the leader of the Democratic Party of Japan, has caused alarm in Washington after publishing an article blaming the US for the ills of capitalism, the global economy and "the destruction of human dignity".
He also intends to examine an agreement that permits US warships to dock at Japanese ports, in violation of the nation's non-nuclear principles. Mr Hatoyama says he will also look again at the $6 billion cost faced by Japan to transfer thousands of US troops from their base in Okinawa to the Pacific island of Guam amid a wide-ranging review of the American military presence on Japanese soil.
His election campaign promised a more "independent" foreign policy from Washington and closer relations with Asian neighbours, including China. On Thursday, he repeated his intention to defy the US and end the Maritime Self-Defence Force's resupply mission in the Indian Ocean.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
This does not sound good.
The Obama Nation has been proposing to remove dozens of F-15’s and F-16’s from Japan since April.
I’m beginning to suspect that every Republic needs it’s moments of insanity to remind it’s citizens what’s actually at stake.
They should.
WTF? Where did this come from?
not to worry - he evidently is behind the times and hasn’t heard that the Great Uniter Himself is now our President
The Telegraph, it’s a UK newspaper. Quite well known.
It’s about time. Let them defend themselves. But dont call us when the Chicoms get payback for Nanking.
President Obama, gonna make everyone love again.
Yeah, right.
Decades long allies are now becoming enemies (Japan, Slavic states, Israel, UK, etc...) and attempts to create friendships (Iran, North Korea, Russia) are not working out.
Worst President Ever.
Didn’t you see last month the long ruling and America friendly LDP lost to the DPJ.
They’ve promised to stop buying our debt unless it is in Yen, not dollars.
Ask the Germans circa 1930 what happens when you have to issue debt in foreign denominations. It’s not pretty.
Japan and China are now each other’s number on trade partner. We’re number 2.
It’s called “We are living up to our end of the agreement by not arming ourselves in the contract that you will protect us and Obama lets Kim Jong Ill lob missiles that fly right over our heads and tests nuclear weapons without Obama doing squat about it.”
Or something like that.
This is hysterical. The Japanese are what they have always been. Tell your lefty friends who might start sympathizing to check this out: http://www.savejapandolphins.org/
and that’s number ten.
However, if he manages to divorce Japanese and US foreign policy in the meantime, then a precedent will have been set. The next PM might be of a hawkish nature on defense matters. Perhaps he'd want an independent nuclear deterrent, for example.
I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but that has got be on the minds of her neighbors.
China would love to devour Japan if it could. These lunatics can make all the anti-US noises they want but that won’t change reality.
I miss the previous guy with the Elvis haircut. That guy loved us.
I've already done so. I started taking in interest in such things last October, for obvious reasons.
You know what, you’ve given me an idea.
China forgives our 2 trillion foreign debt to them and we look the other way while they take over Asia.
I mean its not like we can pay it back anyways....
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