[Retief]

Other countries in Asia haven't forgotten World War II. They still fear and loath the Japanese.

That's why Japan is such a great US ally . . . because everyone else hates Japan. Japan is like Israel. Everyone else in the world hates the country.

Unfortunately, Japan, like Israel, needs nukes. The US can't be trusted as an ally and may cut-and-run as it did in Vietnam, and as the Dems are threatening to do now in Iraq.

It's far better to have nukes and not need them, then to need nukes and not have them.

[diesel00]

That's why Japan is such a great US ally . . . because everyone else hates Japan. Japan is like Israel. Everyone else in the world hates the country.

Japan isn't like Israel. Israel and jews didn't go around killing, raping and looting all those Germans, Muslims, Poles and Frenchmen.

East Asian wariness of Japan is not the same as fanatical Muslim hatred of Israel. The former has good and solid historical basis.

[Alter Kaker]

That's why Japan is such a great US ally . . . because everyone else hates Japan.

Except the US can't afford for the Far East to turn into the Middle East. The US needs to have not just Japan, but also South Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, Taiwan, the Philipines, etc. in its sphere of influence, not China's, if it wants to contain China. Also, I'm not sure that Japan sees its relations with the US in quite the same way that Israel does.