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2007-01-10 China-Japan-Koreas
Japan with first full-fledged defense ministry since WWII
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Posted by Fred 2007-01-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Excellent. Along with Indian realignment, the most under-reported strategic development of recent times. And like the former, a very good one for the mobilized free world (US, Australia, UK - sort of, Israel, central Europe, parts of South Korea and Canada).
Posted by Verlaine 2007-01-10 01:19||   2007-01-10 01:19|| Front Page Top

#2 - sort of, Israel,

Oh joy.
Posted by gromgoru 2007-01-10 02:11||   2007-01-10 02:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Don't quite get your comment, gromgoru. But "sort of" was a reference to the UK, not Israel. I'm sure that'll help you.
Posted by Verlaine 2007-01-10 02:27||   2007-01-10 02:27|| Front Page Top

#4 He's Israeli! :-)
Posted by gorb 2007-01-10 03:11||   2007-01-10 03:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Sorry.
Posted by gromgoru 2007-01-10 03:13||   2007-01-10 03:13|| Front Page Top

#6 You don't have to be sorry for being Israeli! ;-)
Posted by gorb 2007-01-10 04:16||   2007-01-10 04:16|| Front Page Top

#7 I thought Grom said he was an American?
Posted by RD 2007-01-10 07:07||   2007-01-10 07:07|| Front Page Top

#8 #6 Sorry about misunderstanding Verlaine.
#7 When did I do that? (I never even lived in US---unless you consider New Mexico to be a part :-))
Posted by gromgoru 2007-01-10 07:33||   2007-01-10 07:33|| Front Page Top

#9 I believe Gromky, who is currently in the wilds of China is American, RD. Both gentlemen's names are sometimes shortened to Grom/grom around here. Perhaps that's where the confusion comes from.
Posted by trailing wife 2007-01-10 08:00||   2007-01-10 08:00|| Front Page Top

#10 You know what this means, doncha? Pentagon'll have to dust off and upgrade their "Plan Orange"!
Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839">AlmostAnonymous5839  2007-01-10 09:18||   2007-01-10 09:18|| Front Page Top

#11 grom, youse be'in mystrious, haveta sic janet reno on ya ifin ya aint careful.

>;
Posted by RD 2007-01-10 09:19||   2007-01-10 09:19|| Front Page Top

#12 This should piss off the ChiComs, although it is their own damn fault. Still lots of animosity left over from WWII when the Japanese behaved rather badly. I do wonder how much of the fuss is orchestrated by the Chinese Emperor, as oppossed to being indigenous. Woops, did I say 'emperor'? I meant Cenral Committe.
Posted by SteveS 2007-01-10 09:36||   2007-01-10 09:36|| Front Page Top

#13 Note that they haven't reinstated the names "Army" and "Navy". Those are still Self-Defense whatevers.
Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford  2007-01-10 10:01|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2007-01-10 10:01|| Front Page Top

#14 Japan is a good example of the proper way to deal with enemies.

First they repent. After proving they mean it, you forgive them.

In these PC days we want to take a short cut and go directly to forgivenss without the repentence.

This is, in a nutshell, our problem with Iraq. They never went through a total surrender / repentence phase before we started to forgive them and let them run things.
Posted by AlanC">AlanC  2007-01-10 10:07||   2007-01-10 10:07|| Front Page Top

#15 #11 Is RD serving in Iraq (ref John Kerry)?
Posted by gromgoru 2007-01-10 10:58||   2007-01-10 10:58|| Front Page Top

#16 Don't worry about this. When they get Gundam suits, then worry.
Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader  2007-01-10 11:35||   2007-01-10 11:35|| Front Page Top

#17 Well, I for one, welcome the Japanese back into the fold. A shame, though, they got back to Defense Ministry before Mr. Pruitt's Secretary of War could be nominated and appointed for Rantburgia, lol!
Posted by BA 2007-01-10 11:36||   2007-01-10 11:36|| Front Page Top

#18 Hmmm.... fascinating.... Israel takes out Iran's nukes, and Japan takes out Kimmie's toys (after all they are in the area), and we just provide "strategic" advice to our two allies... Ol' "W" still has a couple diabolical bones left in him. I was beginning to wonder after Rummy and Bolton left...
Posted by BigEd 2007-01-10 12:32||   2007-01-10 12:32|| Front Page Top

#19 Rummy and Bolton are still alive and at the other end of the telephone! :-)
Posted by gorb 2007-01-10 14:50||   2007-01-10 14:50|| Front Page Top

#20 The Russians might consider giving the Japanese back the Kuriles as a "good-will" jesture, before they lose them. Japan, too, has a long memory.
Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot  2007-01-10 15:21|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]  2007-01-10 15:21|| Front Page Top

#21 I wonder if they remember Formosa Taiwan belonged to them too.
Posted by Procopius2k 2007-01-10 17:58||   2007-01-10 17:58|| Front Page Top

#22 #15 Is grom serving in federal prison in Butner, North Carolina? (ref Jonathan Pollard )?
Posted by RD 2007-01-10 20:54||   2007-01-10 20:54|| Front Page Top

#23 Oh, poop.
Posted by Hu Jin tao 2007-01-10 21:28||   2007-01-10 21:28|| Front Page Top

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