Japan does not want to be Western, Western is a cultural term, the Japanese are Asian. Though Japan's relation to Asia could be compared in many ways to Great Britain's relationship to Europe. In that, the two are similar in many ways, yet still different and independent of one another.
45% of Japanese believe foreigners deserve less human rights protection the Japanese, FACT. Still think Japan is western or that the populus is so lovely?
I'd like to know where those statistics came from. Anyway, Western and enlightened are not synonymous as you seek to imply. The West and Japan,…
Anyway, Japan lacks Western "attributes" such as torture (Abu Ghraib), war, and support for undemocratic regimes. Clearly, the West is vastly superior.
What weapons of mass-destruction? Saddam Hussein deliberately acted vague about the WMD's as a way of deterring arch-rival Iran from any aggressive moves as well as the belief that the Americans would never invade even if their were WMDs. In other words there were never…
RepublicofTexas at 09:25 AM JST - 6th August
USAPatriot, you are not a conservative, you are way further right than conservative, you would be what they call a reactionary, possibly a fascist.
WOW, the scary thing is that you are serious.
Posted in White House denies faking letter linking Iraq and al-Qaida at 09:25 AM JST - 6th August
RepublicofTexas at 09:22 AM JST - 6th August
You don't have to be a warmonger to be a conservative. There are many conservatives who oppose and have opposed the Iraq War.
Posted in White House denies faking letter linking Iraq and al-Qaida at 09:22 AM JST - 6th August
RepublicofTexas at 09:20 AM JST - 6th August
That is one of the worst things I've ever heard. I;d hate to sound anything like Aso, but that's the sort of thing Hitler would have said.
Posted in White House denies faking letter linking Iraq and al-Qaida at 09:20 AM JST - 6th August
RepublicofTexas at 09:19 AM JST - 6th August
Japan does not want to be Western, Western is a cultural term, the Japanese are Asian. Though Japan's relation to Asia could be compared in many ways to Great Britain's relationship to Europe. In that, the two are similar in many ways, yet still different and independent of one another.
Posted in In the world of geopolitics, do you think of Japan as part of the West? at 09:19 AM JST - 6th August
RepublicofTexas at 09:16 AM JST - 6th August
First of all, i'm from Texas, in other words conservative. Second and more importantly, war is NEVER morally justified.
Posted in White House denies faking letter linking Iraq and al-Qaida at 09:16 AM JST - 6th August
RepublicofTexas at 09:14 AM JST - 6th August
I'd like to know where those statistics came from. Anyway, Western and enlightened are not synonymous as you seek to imply. The West and Japan,…
Posted in In the world of geopolitics, do you think of Japan as part of the West? at 09:14 AM JST - 6th August
RepublicofTexas at 09:12 AM JST - 6th August
lol, sorry
Posted in In the world of geopolitics, do you think of Japan as part of the West? at 09:12 AM JST - 6th August
RepublicofTexas at 09:12 AM JST - 6th August
That's nowhere near the amount of WMD's that the White House implied Iraq had in its arsenal.
"In 2006 Fox News reported the claims of two Republican lawmakers that WMDs had been found in Iraq,[37] based upon unclassified portions of…
Posted in White House denies faking letter linking Iraq and al-Qaida at 09:12 AM JST - 6th August
RepublicofTexas at 09:09 AM JST - 6th August
Anyway, Japan lacks Western "attributes" such as torture (Abu Ghraib), war, and support for undemocratic regimes. Clearly, the West is vastly superior.
Posted in In the world of geopolitics, do you think of Japan as part of the West? at 09:09 AM JST - 6th August
RepublicofTexas at 09:04 AM JST - 6th August
What weapons of mass-destruction? Saddam Hussein deliberately acted vague about the WMD's as a way of deterring arch-rival Iran from any aggressive moves as well as the belief that the Americans would never invade even if their were WMDs. In other words there were never…
Posted in White House denies faking letter linking Iraq and al-Qaida at 09:04 AM JST - 6th August