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To: bentway who wrote (292315)	6/26/2006 10:49:05 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571928

This is a move designed to calm the Japanese, or CON the Japanese, depending on how you look at it. Maybe just to give the Japanese government something to use to snooker their own people into quiescence. Interesting interpretation. I thought it would be more of a move to pressure NK and especially China to pressure NK, akin to when Reagan put the Pershing missles into Europe to counter the Soviets. NK is going to be less and less inclined to fire missiles if it results in an arms buildup next door, and China is going to be especially against the idea. Placating a nervous Japanese population seems secondary to me.