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To: TobagoJack who wrote (10231)	10/18/2006 10:45:34 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217774

I think I expressed this before: while the US is legally comitted by treaty to defend SK and Japan, and Japan has to go through difficult legal and emotional hoops to arm itself with nuclear weapons, NK is not crazy enough to launch against anyone because, obviously, it is the end of the regime if they do, and the NK pathological idiots have a keen sense of self-preservation, if not much else. This keen sense of self preservation will ironically protect the region if it is maintained and not challenged. The US needs to react to the NKs with a big yawn...."so you've got a couple of nukes, eh? Congratulations, we'll make sure to send you a card. We happen to have thousands, and they are much, much bigger than yours, plus we can part Kim Jong Il's hair with the accuracy of our missiles, so don't do anything stupid, blokes, we have a President with an itchy trigger finger." All of which makes the NKs a Chinese and Russian problem, but mostly Chinese as any NK nuclear insanity will bring back to the surface age old rivalries involving Koreans, Japanese, and Chinese. These ancient grudges are a bigger problem than the NKs, at the end of the day, even if the NKs serve only as catalysts for their return. China needs to foment regime change in NK--the smartest thing it can do. It wouldg gather tons of prestige with the SKs, at the expense of the US, and put a damper on anynotion of a re-militarized Japan.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (10231)	10/19/2006 1:02:06 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217774

Excellent rabid racist rant TJ. Well done: <I note that 84 Japanese politicians just made a point to pay respect to war criminal shrine to make a point, and if so, and as there is no upside to this ritual, and we are talking about a nation that seem to instill a suicidal bent, ... etc :0) > Those Japs sure are suicidal people. It's amazing they ever got to 120 million. But as a suicidal nation they could take a LOT of lessons from China, where they kill each other by the horde, and worship daily at the shrine of the Great Leader who supervised much of it. China, as you say, is reverting to the mean and revamping 800 years of history. I expect to see eunuchs by the thousand looking after HQ any time soon, as the glories of the past when paper and dynamite were invented, are revisited upon a grateful population. Suicide rates here: who.int I note that Japan's female suicide rate is high, but not quite as high as China's. I think they despair when they look at the blokes they get to choose from, or maybe it's because they can't get a good grip on the lower rungs of the corporate ladder, let alone higher ones. But the murder rate is really low in Japan. Murder and suicide are two sides of the same emotional coin. It's low in China too [where they enthusiastically recycle body parts - the Green Party would approve as they do NOT like waste]. Having got sidetracked from the point of my post, I'd better make it. Perhaps you didn't know that the shrine the Japanese PM visits is not a "war criminal shrine" but a soldier memorial place and such things are normal around the world. China's leaders continue to venerate murderous monster Mao, so whining about Japan venerating their military ancestors is par for the course. Even today, China threatens bulk murder of Taiwanese if they don't obey the military maniacs in Beijing. They have done bulk murder in Tibet. Of course it's convenient to have foreign devil evil-doers, such as Japanese, to keep the local yokels in thrall to the Great Leaders who will protect them from the Axes of Evil lurking around the world. Plus ca change, Mqurice