Posted on 12/09/2009 3:52:37 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
U.S. puts off meetings on broader ties / PM's inaction on Futenma issue blamed
The Yomiuri Shimbun
The U.S. government, reacting to Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's procrastination over the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Okinawa Prefecture, has informed Tokyo it will postpone key bilateral consultations aimed at "deepening the Japan-U.S. alliance," government sources said Tuesday.
The previously agreed consultations were suggested by Hatoyama in summit talks with U.S. President Barack Obama when he visited Tokyo last month.
Expectations on the part of the Japanese government were to see the consultations start before the end of the year, with 2010 marking the 50th anniversary of the revision of the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty, the sources said on condition of anonymity.
The U.S. decision to put off the consultations indicates strong U.S. displeasure with the stance the Hatoyama administration has taken on reviewing the Japan-U.S. deal reached in 2006 regarding the relocation issue, according to the sources. Given the "alliance-deepening consultations" having widely been deemed as symbolic of future strengthening of Japan-U.S. ties, their deferment is yet another adverse development that could have a serious impact on the entire Japan-U.S. relationship, analysts said.
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Actually your words were great.
My thought is that the timing is critical and it must be Pearl Harbor like....... they must never see it coming
I’d hope that everyone on FR would appreciate the ideas you brought to this thread!!
They just happened to have voted in a guy, with people in his cabinet, hell bent on it.
Most Americans I now DO NOT WANT American-relations damaged or harmed in a serious way.
They just happened to have voted in a guy, with people in his cabinet, hell bent on it.
In this way, the people of Japan and America are kind of ironically, tragically locked, each with two big doofuses running the top shop in their respective countries. There is not telling what kind of trouble those two are going to get us in.
The good news on the street was that if Hatoyama does not crap or get off the pot, or goes to far in opposing the US, he actually risks a good loss of public opinion support here.
Most average Japanese know their true enemies are North Korea and China (and maybe Russia), and their true friends are the US, South Korea and Taiwan. That's just simple, commonsense in my book and has always been that way.
BHO has never met an ally he wants to keep
Agreed. So how can it be arranged? What group can invite her?
Agreed. So how can it be arranged? What group can invite her?
Now I am going to let some others step in and answer that question for starters and carry the ball. I gave some general ideas to spark the idea.
But you are welcome to share what is on your mind.
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