Japanese PM resigns | 26 comments (26 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Obama is no Japan-based marine (4.00 / 4)

tuasfait: When I talked about it with friends in the government, they were appalled, "How dare you say such a thing to Americans?!"

Extraordinary. Hasn't this class of people evolved at all in the last fifty years? They need to start taking pointers from their Chinese counterparts.

If you can't pay the bills, it's not sustainable.

by marco on Thu Jun 3rd, 2010 at 01:44:49 AM EST
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Re: Obama is no Japan-based marine (4.00 / 4)

Hasn't this class of people evolved at all in the last fifty years?

Yes, actually. They used to have some backbone 38 years ago. Otherwise, Okinawa would have never come back to us in 1972.

I will become a patissier, God willing.

by tuasfait on Thu Jun 3rd, 2010 at 02:09:14 AM EST
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Re: Obama is no Japan-based marine (4.00 / 3)

tuasfait: They used to have some backbone 38 years ago. Otherwise, Okinawa would have never come back to us in 1972.

Yes, but at the cost of betraying the Three Non-Nuclear Principles, as well as honesty with their own people. I guess whatever backbone they had has continued to degenerate since then.

If you can't pay the bills, it's not sustainable.

by marco on Thu Jun 3rd, 2010 at 03:19:22 AM EST
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Japanese PM resigns | 26 comments (26 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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