More people involved in pro-Constitution moves: Oe

Monday 24th November, 02:39 PM JST

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Gloobey at 06:37 PM JST - 24th November

So, Japan wants all of the benefits of being a sovereign member state of the UN but intends taking none of the responsibility, right? The Germans have made peace with themselves and others following their acions during WW2 and their soldiers can serve anywhere UN peace keeping forces are placed. These idiots are happy to let the US army of occupation do what it's own army should do. Shameful.
NYC_Samurai at 04:21 AM JST - 25th November

Gloobey

Well put. Nothing else to add.
bagofrom at 04:50 AM JST - 25th November

If people in US feels so troubled by sending their troops abroad, they should have spend some time considering foreign policies before starting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. If you don't want your troops dying abroad, don't start wars! After agreeing on that we can start discussing global responsibilities.
ScottishThug at 05:42 AM JST - 25th November

If you don't want your troops dying abroad, don't start wars!

Who in the US says they don't want their troops dying abroad, furthering the cause for freedom and the US economic hegemony?
OssanAmerica at 05:55 AM JST - 25th November

I say pull the US nuclear umbrella and our troops. Let people like these face the reality that freedom doesn't come for free, that it's something that must be defended. These people are either children or parasites. This is what they want to "hand down" to the future generations of their country?
bagofrom at 09:36 AM JST - 25th November

freedom doesn't come for free, that it's something that must be defended

I'd have to remind Iraq's paramilitary groups about that
NeoJamal at 10:46 AM JST - 25th November

I'd have to remind Iraq's paramilitary groups about that

Also remind them that it was Article 9 that prevented Japan from partaking in active aggression against their country along with its western allies like the US, UK and Australia that condemned Japan's leaders to death and jail 60 years ago for committing un-provoked aggression against their own nations in the interest of distributive justice. If it wasn't for Article 9, most educated Japanese would have surely felt the gross indignation at witnessing their own soldiers shipped off to wage war against an Asian nation again, but Japan having not incurred the same punishment it endured 60 years because she has won. All the while Japan may enjoy the spoils of war along with the coalition, her contribution to the Iraqi war effort offer by no means exoneration from its role in WWII. Japanese who know the justicial discord between the aggression committed now and the past must quietly accept it, knowing how powerless Japan is against the opinions of her hypocritical Coalition allies who refuse to contemplate the enormity of what they have unfolded. Article 9 may have not prevented Japan's cowardly and unprincipled leaders from supporting the invasion, but it has prevented Japan from entirely degressing from the abounded judgments delivered by the hypocrits at the Tokyo Tribunal.