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Originally posted by Pervius
Before Fukushima........
Before StuxNet..........
Japan offered to help Iran with its Nuclear Reactors.
The United States was MAD!
The whole "kick the US Marines out of Okinawa" thing was actually the Japanese pushing it as they've been getting very anti-American. Their military officers writing very anti-American papers blaming America for WWII....
Well they didn't lie. Japan was kinda innocent. Long ago foreigners were doing things in Japan which led to the Civil War in Japan where the Samurai's were killing each other. When Japan's civil war was over they closed their cities and didn't want to deal with the crooked world. The US Navy rolled in and said "open up to trading or we are going to bomb your cities"....Japan quickly modernized and traded their Samurai swords for business suits and glasses. They spread around the Pacific creating Industry, using the same tactics we taught them.
The US decided to cease exporting Oil to Japan. Japan said to open up to trading or get bombed. The US evacuated its military and dependents from Guam leaving a skeleton crew. They figured Japan would just seize Guam. Boom, Pearl Harbor. We knew it was coming. We taught them that tactic.
Poor Japanese. You can only beat a dog so long before he snaps at you.
One day, Japan will be able to snap...and get their honor back. Today's kids using Japanese game stations have no clue the Japanese despise them...and want them DEAD.
The Baby Boomers belittling the Toyota Exec before Congress was a little too much. You don't do such things publicly to the Japanese. Unless you understand the consequences.