sailwind said...

sailwind at 01:49 AM JST - 17th August

By memorializing a military unit that was engaged in evil actions for the furtherance of evil ends, these men are doing something that deserves condemnation.

No offense Brighteyes you understand history quite well and I think I can safely say you were never in the military and can never understand…

Posted in Yasukuni at 01:49 AM JST - 17th August
sailwind at 01:14 AM JST - 17th August

Rather reflecting on the futility of the lives lost on both sides will help make us all more sober.

Isn't that why have memorials????? No offense but isn't that why we constuct them to give people pause for reflection?

I'm really not getting the points here. Yasukuni is a shrine…

Posted in Yasukuni at 01:14 AM JST - 17th August
sailwind at 02:03 PM JST - 16th August

If you want to make the case that some of those who were involved were victims of their governments as much as of their own intellectual and moral shortcomings then go ahead and try to make that case, but never forget that they are incontrovertibly victims of their own shortcomings…

Posted in Yasukuni at 02:03 PM JST - 16th August
sailwind at 01:21 PM JST - 16th August

Brighteyes,

Been reading through your posts, quite the slog as I to try to decipher your position as it tends to get masked under all those ten dollars words you use. I'm going to have bow to your superior education a bit here because I'm just a dumb veteran who…

Posted in Yasukuni at 01:21 PM JST - 16th August
sailwind at 11:49 PM JST - 15th August

I'm just saying bro, would you support Japanese Nationalism (where Yasukuni is an inseparable institution) if you know that was the principle driving force that wins Japanese support for conflicts that have US and her other allies' interests at stake?

Disagree.....This principle force is Japanese self-interest not nationalism. This picture…

Posted in Yasukuni at 11:49 PM JST - 15th August
sailwind at 11:04 PM JST - 15th August

NeoJamal

Sheesh....What does Iraq and America invading HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS? Can people actually have a rational discussion on this board without bringing Iraq and Bush into the conversation????????

Posted in Yasukuni at 11:04 PM JST - 15th August
sailwind at 10:57 PM JST - 15th August

If my father, grand father, uncle or great uncle had been tried & convicted of being a war criminal & executed they would still be my father, grand father, uncle or great uncle & as such would still be entitled to my respect because of the kinship we would share…

Posted in Japan ministers, but not premier, visit war shrine at 10:57 PM JST - 15th August
sailwind at 10:55 PM JST - 14th August

adaydream

One day I really look forward when you can actually post something that doesn't involve Bush or Iraq.

Posted in Russia decides to end operations in S. Ossetia at 10:55 PM JST - 14th August
sailwind at 10:51 PM JST - 14th August

Let's get down to the bottom line of all this anyway......Russia wants her control of her 'near abroad' again, if you don't know the term google the term Russia near abroad. Putin has been more and autocratic over the years and empowered by oil wealth.......Sheesh, like this hasn't happened before.…

Posted in Russia decides to end operations in S. Ossetia at 10:51 PM JST - 14th August
sailwind at 10:35 PM JST - 14th August

Those neocons who advocated the invasion of Iraq were confident it would demonstrate an intimidating show of US power, cementing our status as the world’s dominant, and sole, superpower. The result they try so hard not to acknowledge has been precisely the opposite:

I thought the neocons vision was about…

Posted in Russia decides to end operations in S. Ossetia at 10:35 PM JST - 14th August