Saturday, September 19, 2015
Has anybody warned Pearl?
After a hard fought battle in the Japanese Parliament, the government of Japan has been given permission to engage in military missions beyond the borders of Japan.
n a middle-of-the night vote that capped a tumultuous struggle with opposition parties in Parliament, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan secured final passage of legislation on Saturday authorizing overseas combat missions for his country’s military, overturning a decades-old policy of reserving the use of force for self-defense.That's nice. Remember this is a countrythat has never acknowledged the brutal crimes committed by its military in WWII as the Germans have. And now the supporters of this change to the Japanese constitution also harbor hostile thoughts about the US. Time to bring our boys home and then Pearl their Harbor.
The legislation had been expected to pass; Mr. Abe’s governing coalition controls a formidable majority in the legislature. But analysts said the grinding political battle and days of demonstrations that accompanied the effort could hurt his standing with a public already skeptical of his hawkish vision for Japan’s national security.
The debate often doubled as a forum for airing views about Japan’s most important ally, the United States. Many were hostile.
“If this legislation passes, we will absolutely be caught up in illegal American wars,” Taro Yamamoto, a leader of a small left-leaning opposition party, said in a committee debate on Thursday. The debate ended with lawmakers piled on top of one another in a melee for control of the chairman’s microphone.
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