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Written by Scott Meadow
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Friday, 10 December 2004 (read 1720 times) |
Recently, as my
butt was falling asleep editing this pathetic rag, Ty pointed out that
China had stopped bulking up its space programs and massive military
forces long enough to be concerned at Japan saying it wanted "a bigger
role in global military cooperation and a better response to missile
attacks." Ty did this by forwarding along a piece covering China's reaction on
Reuters before disappearing behind a Grilled Stufft Fajita
from Taco Bell back in his office. I guess the
Ukraine doesn't have very good Mexican
because he hasn't stopped eating these things all month.
 What's up, hot stuff?
Not exactly Benito Mussolini, is he?
Still, one can certainly see why the Chinese would be scared of
Koizumi, since all they have is Sun Tzu
and Mao Tse-tung and a few thousand years
of war tactics and strategy and a billion more
people to defend themselves with.
Then again, the Japanese do have giant lizards and ninja and
The Last Samuri going for them. Still, as
nasty as Godzilla can get -- especially when bugged by Mothra -- I
think a billion Chinamen trump a nuclear lizard nine times out of ten.
Personally, I find it interesting in these days of pre-emptive war --
or what we used to call "attacking a nation" -- that we pretend to be
surprised that other nations want to get their piece of the
international arms trafficking pie, as if
we assumed we'd be the only ones cleaning up in the era of Occupying
Sovereign Nations Who Haven't Attacked
UsTM. Frankly, I say Japan should go ahead
and take care of their own defense. It's been over 50 years, we
wrote their constitution, and they practically own the computer and
software industries. I say it's about time that they use those
Super Mario Brothers profits to buy a
Howitzer or three.
After all, who do you suppose has a few laying around to sell
them? (i.e., that's code for "buy shares of Lockheed-Martin and
General Dynamics NOW, kids. Right NOW!)
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