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Bufotenin -> RE: More bad news from Iraq (10/25/2007 2:05:53 PM)
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ORIGINAL: farglebargle
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ORIGINAL: Sanity
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That doesn't magically mean the occupation hasn't been one long string of incredible fuck-ups.
World War II was one long string of incredible fuck ups too. HISTORY has been one long string of incredible fuck ups. So, what's your point? That everything should always go perfectly?
Yeah, the U.S. certainly fucked-up the occupations of Japan and Germany, eh? What with the failure to rebuild their infrastructures and all the money going into that disappearing, the loss of 1,000's more American soldier's lives during the OCCUPATIONS than during the actual war...
Seriously, what is your point? "Well, things aren't going well. Sometimes they don't. C'est la vie! Why should anyone be held accountable?" Is that your argument?
Ask the schoolgirls getting raped on Okinawa these days how wonderful the US Occupation of Japan has been.
Even if I were to ask one of Okinawa's unfortunate victims of our military's lax screening policies what she thought of the U.S. occupation of Japan, she'd probably laugh at me and call me a stupid American for thinking that the current American presence in Japan constitutes an 'Occupation of Japan'. As would anyone who actually endured the occupation of Japan. Either way, I fail to see how an emotionally wounded 20-something is supposed to provide some great insight. If you need proof that the occupation was a success (despite the hardships endured by the Japanese people), you only need remember how scared shitless the right-wingers were of Japan during the Japanese asset price bubble.
It's funny that those on the left here in the United States would seem to agree with those on Japan's far-right. Most Japanese prefer the presence of the United States to the thought of Japan remilitarizing. For starters, 2 billion annually is a bargain compared to the cost of developing and funding a nation's own military, it means they don't need to worry about their loved ones going to war, and they don't have to deal with China invading Taiwan or any of the crap North Korea would pull if the United States withdrew from the Pacific theater.
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