Posted on 12/13/2013 6:21:12 AM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
If we revisit the treaty with Japan, we also have to revisit the parts that limit their own military. That was the trade-off we made.
Pat may be old, but he’s as sharp as a tack, especially where foreign policy is concerned. The perfect antidote to the Krauthammers and Podhoretzes of the world.
Quemoy and Matsu: that’s when Richard M. Nixon let JFK look aggressive in defense of the homeland
Japan will find a work-around if they feel threatened, or doubt the US umbrella, treaty or no treaty. What are we going to do, enforce it? Our government would probably applaud.
Germany had such a treaty with the Austrians if memory serves.
Pat is 75; just four years older than Newton Gingrich.
The Dual Alliance?
“Is the Sudentanland worth a war?
Why die for Danzig?”
“We got into a world of hurt before getting involved in struggles between Japan and China.”
The answer is to cancel all such security pact trip wires that mean war.
BTW Is the Tea party in favor of growing government and spending for war or are they just for whacking Americans?
Just turn around the Walmart Navy.
Go long Mexico, it will become the new China.
What about all those US government securities in Beijing’s basement?
What if they fire across a bow? Or we do?
Where does this go?
So now Pat is shilling for the Chinese Communsts.
How low can he go?
And if it is, the Japanese need to pony up. Men, money, materiel.
The Senkakus are NOT independently the issue, and Mr Buchanan is not ignorant of that fact.
The Senkakus are but one of many such long territorial disagreements (in the oceans) between China and other Asian nations, as well as between two or more of those other Asian nations.
The difference is that most of those disagreements have not until recently generated much in the way of military confrontations involving the navies of Asia.
China has changed that.
It is attempting to bully those with whom it has such disagreements, even when its claims are much less feasible that could conceivably be the case with the respect to the Senkakus. Earlier this year it sailed a group of military vessels into the waters off the shore of an atoll that is just 90 miles from Malaysia and more than 1,000 miles from any piece of Chinese territory, just to announce to Malaysia that, if it wanted to, it would defend it’s (China’s) claim on the area.
It has taken similar moves with respect to the Philippines and Vietnam.
Then, as though to insure unhindered prospects for this bullying it has declared a swath of international waters as a security zone it will demand other nations give it, China, deference to in their transit through it.
The issue is not, independently, the Sekakus, or any other group of islands claimed by anyone.
The issue is whether China will be allowed to bully everyone into agreements on these issues to its satisfaction or will it be forced to make comprehensive and peaceful multi-national agreements with the rest of Asia.
China wants to bully nations into one-on-one agreements, offering both carrots and sticks in some cases, and even when such an agreement results in the same claims by other parties left out, and in effect dividing Asian nations outside of China from each other and from a common cause of obtaining settlements agreed to by all.
Chinese nationalism wants to pretend, to the Chinese populace, that its bullying is necessary for the expanding Chinese economy and its need for raw materials. This is imperialist mercantilist nationalism no different than Japan’s in the first forty decades of the last century. After WWII Japan learned that through peaceful and cooperative trade it could obtain the outside resources its economy needed, that demanding them by force was unnecessary.
The issue is not the Sekakus. Buchanan is an idiot.
If China is not careful she could become this century’s version of last century’s Japan, with the attendent backlash in Asia and the world that goes with it.
Oh Bull!
Flying B-52’s through that airspace isn’t “disipating” anything!
Adding fighter escorts isn’t either!
Let’s let the ‘chopstick countries’ sort things out for themselves.
I wouldn’t say ‘I don’t care’, but I will say it’s not worth one cent of taxpayer money or one drop of American blood. A lot of people forget that getting in the (profitable) middle of Chain vs. Japan in the 20’s and 30’s didn’t turn out too well.
“They werent worth a war, as far as the USA was concerned. Oahu was...”
Well....no, not Oahu, China. You ignore the oil embargo that drove the Japanese attack in the first place. Despite being warned very clearly by the Japanese that an embargo was their red line for war, the USA decided that China was worth a war with Japan and imposed the embargo. It’s a strange reversal from the situation today.
Sudentanland and Danzig, indeed.
Why in the WORLD do we care about these God-forsaken islands?
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