Re: [tlug] (OT) The enigma of Japan

[JC Helary <brandelune@example.com>]

On mercredi 10 juin 09, at 12:45, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> JC Helary writes:

> > > You don't think Article 9 of the Constitution is even a little bit  
> > > unusual for a so-called "nation state"?
>
> > Do they have armed forces or not ?
>
> But they can't even muster the political will to shoot at *pirates*,  
> for heaven's sake,

I should complain about a state that does not have the political will  
to kill people in the open ?

They may refuse to do that, but they have no issue whatsoever fueling  
ships that send baby killers to Afghanistan today or funding Irak's  
indiscriminate bombings back in the 90'.

> let alone a country that has admittedly committed an act that would  
> surely be
> casus belli (kidnapping ordinary Japanese citizens on Japanese soil)
> for any other country.

Individuals in Japan do that all the times with foreign citizens. Do  
people care ? I am talking about children of separated couples of  
course.

> > > Or how about the nearly 60-year nearly unbroken rule by a single
> > > party?
> >
> > The Dems/Repugs little game in the US is a proof that you can achieve
> > the same result by making things look vastly different.

> candidates are better orators than others).  But there is a vast array
> of small but important differences in practical policy matters, eg,
> Supreme Court appointments.

While differences like the number of untold genocides around the world  
is pretty much non existent, and maybe the dems have a better score  
there.


Jean-Christophe Helary