With the fall of the Soviet Union, and the end of the Cold War, America has now decided to remove troops from Japan to Guam. Coincidentally, at the same time, the USA has engaged military action against Iraq. Japan is forced to pay the bill for the move.
This is in my opinion an egregious error. Japanese citizens do not want American forces in Okinawa. And why should they pay, when in fact Truman's decision to target civilian targets was a war crime, and Japan should be compensated.
The shift is also because of the Iraq War, and the need for money and support in that arena. Japan is cooperating with America's coalition, because with America in Iraq, it assures Japan its needed oil resources for Japans economy. The Japanese certainly do not trust China for its oil supplies, or Russia for that matter.
I think they are wrong. America needs willing friends, not held captive friends. If America bombed military targets instead of civilians in Japan, they feared constant uprising. But America should realize that if they do not occupy a country, they become a nation that supports individual national sovereignty rights, and autonomy. Instead America has become an Imperial Empire, known as the New World Order. They have stripped Japan of its national heritage, and have used it as a military staging area, with the excuse of protecting the free world. Frankly, if that is the justification for occupation, it certainly denied Japans national rights, in order to protect their own. That is not freedom.
America should pull out of Japan after all these years. Because, maintaining the strategic land base theory, is a fallacy. With aircraft carriers, and submarine launchers, strategic landing sites are a waste of taxpayer money, time, and effort.
The problem now with Iraq and its oil resources, is that the oil supply is a finite resource. With the threat of Global Warming, and the depletion of those scarce oil resources, Japan and the USA should be working jointly in creating Alternative Energy Fuels, instead of this false war called terror.
Japan should be the first to recognize that what America did to them should not be happening to Iraqis.
Now the USA will claim their involvement in Iraq is not about oil, but is about establishing democracy. But why hasn't democracy been established in the many other countries that surround the Persian Gulf? They are all dictatorships except possibly for Israel a country that was sliced out of Palestinian Arab lands, and still has no established borders. If you want to call that a democracy I would have to disagree.
Also America has a major enemy Iran! America used Iraq to fight Iran, and those problems have caused this made up excuse of wanting to give Iraq democracy. The world knows it is just an excuse. Yet what is the world to do against this? Why not have the friendly countries become democracies first, and then convince places like Iraq. Show how it works in the friendly countries, instead of showing how it doesn't work in an unfriendly state.
Its like Superman has taken up the quest to commit crime. It's like Batman and Robin have joined the evil forces of the Joker and the Penguin. It's like Jesus thrusting a sword into one of his disciples. It's like Winston Churchill becoming a Nazi.
This is not America, but a floundering country that has lost its identity and purpose for good. When we have evidence that points to American internal involvement which means Enron, in committing 911, and they do not support real investigations; it is clear America is under siege and has been for a very long time. With the assassination of both Kennedy's and Civil Rights leaders Malcolm X and Dr. King, it is clear that an evil force resides within the borders of the United States.
America needs to get out of Japan and Iraq for a new direction, in becoming a real bone fid supporter of freedom, instead of becoming a dictator and occupier for freedom.
Political fears will only destroy a nation. A nation needs to have support of the people spiritually, and materially. Maintaining material security will always fail. America needs to tell the truth, and support it, in order to bring about its legitimate standing and purpose in the world.
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