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2006-04-01 China-Japan-Koreas

Japanese Opposition Party Self-Destructs

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Posted by Anonymoose 2006-04-01 08:16|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 So, why does the Democratic Party of the US keep its leaders?

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2006-04-01 09:07|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2006-04-01 09:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Obvious. They have no honor. Or shame, for that matter. Or tact. Or common sense. Or deep intellect. Or, for the most part, elective office.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-04-01 09:20|| 2006-04-01 09:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Hehe...
Anonymoose, that is funny 'cus its true.

Posted by DarthVader 2006-04-01 09:48|| 2006-04-01 09:48|| Front Page Top

#4 I guess this means that negotiations will start soon on re-writing of the Japanese Pacifist Constitution. Opening the door for Japan to become a military superpower as well as economic.

Will this happen? Is this a good thing? I dont know, part of me says we need our allies to be more powerful yet part of me also says that I would rather keep others weak even if that means US doing more of the work ourselves to keep a WW2 type scenario from coming to be again. WW2 and WW1 times in history happened because unlike today you had a multicolor world were conventional war could succeed.

I just dont think people realize how much the US absolute domination plays into the fact that no nation sees conventional warfare as winnable means to their goal, hence all these little wars no massive super power wars. Nuclear weapons has nothing to do with it, if anything it makes it worse because it gives the aggressor nation a powerful deterrence to stop invasion and lose of their homeland/power in the case that they lose their aggression attempt.

Unfortunately I believe that our political leadership is so infiltrated with the peace-love-&-happiness LLL mentality that we have no choice but to urge others to build up pull more weight even if that may risk more serious wars in the future. But I guess you cant always have your cake and eat it to.

Posted by C-Low 2006-04-01 11:10|| 2006-04-01 11:10|| Front Page Top

#5 Get 'em Moose!

Posted by 6 2006-04-01 13:19|| 2006-04-01 13:19|| Front Page Top

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