Pat Buchanan: Japan News Is Bring Marines Home

New York, NY – The conservative former Presidential Candidate Pat Buchanan brings to light recent friction between the Japanese government and the United States over Marines stationed in Japan.  The United states has had marines stationed in Japan defending the county since the end of World War Two and he calls for the Marines to come home.

He states:

Indeed, why are we still defending Japan? She is no longer the ruined nation of 1945, but the second-largest economy on earth and among the most technologically advanced.

The Sino-Soviet bloc against which we defended her in the Cold War dissolved decades ago. The Soviet Union no longer exists. China is today a major trading partner of Japan. Russia and India have long borders with China, but neither needs U.S. troops to defend them.

Should a clash come between China and Japan over the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, why should that involve us?

Comes the retort: American troops are in Japan to defend South Korea and Taiwan. But South Korea has a population twice that of the North, an economy 40 times as large, access to the most advanced weapons in the U.S. arsenal and a U.S. commitment to come to her defense by air and sea in any second Korean War.

Read More: www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/02/02/bring_our_marines_home_100130.html

The thoughts expressed by Buchanan above partially reflect predictions of Japanese American tensions in the decades to come as predicted by George Freidman, Author of “The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century”.  Freidman points out the past 50+ years of Japanese American Alliance will come under severe stresses over the coming two decades. 

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