Some fun facts demonstrating that Buchanan wouldn't know a fact if it bit him on his ass:
1) Japanese suffered 300 killed in WWI...this is Buchanan's "Price in Blood." US suffered over 50,000. US took NO territory from anyone. Japan took the Marshall, Gilbert, Palau, and Marianas Islands from Germany in WWI. No country took control of more surface area of the globe with fewer casualties in ANY war than Japan in WWI.
2) The US spent most of WWII in the Pacific fighting bloody battles to capture heavily fortified Japanese islands like Tarawa and Pelileu that the Japanese had taken in WW I from Germany.
3) Pat claims China is a giant and Japan is "disarmed." The Japanese actually have a Navy and Air Force that is GREATLY superior to that of the PRC, right now. And if anything the gap is tilting more in favor of Japan with time. The Japanese defense budget, in some sources, is actually higher than China's...at least, they have similar defense budgets. And the Japanese are far better trained with better technology. The Japanese would crush China in any Naval or Power-projection war. Only thing the Chinese have on them is nukes.