Declan Murphy wrote:

> Eric Takabayashi wrote:
>
> > I am now watching News 23. There is some woman in the
> > streets of Sapporo conducting a solo petition drive
> > against the deployment of the SDF. It was at least minus
> > two and snowing. Perhaps she was wearing a mini.
>
> From memory Sapporo's official mini-skirt and fuckme-boots season isn't
> launched until early February. Perhaps she is from out of town?
>
> > He can refuse, or quit. Or disobey any order to deploy
> > outright. People who don't want to get hurt or die, or
> > their loved ones to get hurt or die, should reconsider
> > such careers.
>
> In the case of her boyfriend/husband/brother/whatever, there is a very
> strong likelihood that *at the time of enlistment* it was explicitly
> understood by all and sundry that service in the JSDF would not involve
> deployment outside of Japan and/or its exclusion zone except for
> training abroad or possibly (if he signed up within the last 10 years)
> on UN blue helmet duties.

If they are that ignorant about what their training or jobs are about, then
they (JSDF) need to get real. An entire feature was done last night on
interviewing people about this future JSDF deployment. Interestingly
enough, it is reported that SDF members aren't the ones complaining.

> Depending on the term of his current
> enlistment, he may not yet have been given the opportunity to reconsider
> his position now that the goal posts have been shifted.

I feel as sorry for that man, as I feel for any other person deployed.

But he needs no "opportunity". If being safe or staying with his girlfriend
in Sapporo are so important (again note that it is his girlfriend being the
selfish bitch, there is NO mention of what the man thinks or says), he can
handle that right now.

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> "Originality usually amounts only to plagiarising something unfamiliar"
> - Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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