January 31, 2010
My question, do we need to stay in Okinawa?
We have bases in South Korea and Taiwan in that region. They need us, Japan doesn't.
Japan can defend themselves and nobody really wants to invade them anyway. The original reason we stayed was because we didn't trust the Japanese, but these days they are too into fucking robots, marrying cartoon characters and generally leading the world in "weird and creepy" to want to invade anybody else. They mostly want the world to leave them alone except to buy their stuff.
Their biggest threat is the poofy-haired maniac lobbing missiles, and we have cruisers and whatnot for that and they can field their missile defense. They're probably helping us and the Israelis build the systems anyway.
It seems to me there's no reason not to be out of western Europe and Japan. They don't need us and those bases cost us money. We can keep those soldiers in places where they're needed.
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Posted by: alexthechick at January 31, 2010 07:03 PM (TtXKB)
Posted by: Federale at January 31, 2010 07:12 PM (F2BPM)
Something you hear very little about is how much of the "Yankee Bases OUT!" jive is founded in the high price of real estate. We saw this very clearly when the Puerto Ricans demanded that we close the live-fire range in Vieques- and it turns out that the big reason was so that the land could be sold at a hideous profit to developers. The action is much the same in Japan, only more so: when you have a few square miles of American military bases sitting on land that might be worth four digits per square yard to a local developer, there's campaign donations a-plenty to the mayor or governor who can organize a street march or petition in "opposition to Yankee imperialism", or whatever.
IOW: Screw the Japanese.
Posted by: DaveP. at January 31, 2010 07:30 PM (DXTmU)
I checked and according to this wikipedia link, most of our Marine bases in that area of the Pacific are on Okinawa.
I did not know that. That changes things a little, but I wonder if we can move them somewhere else in the area, like Taiwan (wouldn't that cheese off China?) or South Korea. (Don't let Murtha get involved, he thinks Okinawa is just over the horizon from Iraq)
It looks as if Okinawa is what we need. Oh well. I had hoped to have an idea for making people love us telling some idjits to go screw.
I really wish we could just tell the world to screw off, but as we learned in 1917 and 1941, that just isn't possible.
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