Can't They Just Build Great Electronics?

Have you ever read something and thought OMG!? Then you put it in the back pocket of your mind and hope you can just forget about it? Well, I did that recently and damn if it didn't fall out of my pocket onto the floor in plane view.

The leader of Japan's largest opposition party on Wednesday denounced government officials' argument of "ensuring (Japan's) capability to attack overseas enemy bases" as a baseless fallacy, Kyodo News reported.

Ichiro Ozawa, chief of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), made the remarks when he was asked by reporters about his view on the argument that Japan should consider building the capability to attack foreign bases in case a missile attack was imminent.

Ozawa said the viewpoint, which was put forward recently by government and ruling camp figures, was too "rude" and "extreme."

He described the argument as "dangerous," which he said was intended to legitimize any preemptive attack whenever Japan named an area as "overseas enemy bases."

Japan's constitution was written to define a passivist nation. Since WWII they have, by design, not fought in any world confrontations. To believe they might now re-write their constitution to allow them to attack others, possibly preemptively, is mind boggling.

I see this as a big brother thing. Ever notice how younger children will try to emulate their big brother or sister? They don't even have to be brother/sister. It could be an older cousin or neighbor.

The ruler leader of the free world is the big brother. In this case almost literally. So leaders of other countries observe the moron's actions, no matter how ill-advised or simply outrageous and they think, hey he can do that and we could do that too. Blair is practically moving in lockstep with the idiot-in-chief.

Right now the world's in near total chaos. The Middle East and many African nations are warring. The countries not hit by war at home are in the Middle East and Africa to add to the mayhem. And this is all happening because the world's stabalizing force and moral compass, the US, has gone completely batshit insane.

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