[Williams]

We have troops in Japan because Japan is an incredible strategic asset for us to be stationed in, and because we want the japanese to stand up to Communist China, North Korea, etc.

We really will be finished when conservatives join hands with leftists on foreign policy.

[kabar]

We have troops in Japan because Japan is an incredible strategic asset for us to be stationed in, and because we want the japanese to stand up to Communist China, North Korea, etc

We also don't want Japan to develop their own nuclear weapons. And we were instrumental in getting Article 9 into the Japanese constitution that essentially relegates Japan's military forces to a defensive role.