The news from
Japan is foreboding. Japan is increasing substantially its military. The
Prime Minister is paying respects to the Japanese war dead (from World War II).
The former is an offensive measure and should be received with alarm. The later
is just one in a long line of insults, but proves the Japanese haven’t changed
and are unrepentant. The pretense of Japanese increased militarization is to
counter increased Chinese military capability. This is a facade. It is the same
type of specious propaganda asserted by Hitler (as his justification for the
militarization of Nazi Germany prior to World War II.)
The instant
dispute involves a bunch or rocks in the ocean somewhere between Japan and
China referred to as the Diaoyu Islands. No one lives there. No one will ever
want to live there. But these islands may be located near some natural
resources (under the ocean). Fishing rights are involved. Japan needs natural
resources. That was a major reason they [Japan] waged World War II in the first
place (lack of natural resources). Here they go again. Lack of natural
resources is not a justification for aggression and provocation, except to the
Japanese, whose sense of superiority leads them to believe it is Japan’s
destiny given by God. More war in the name of God.
