Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newspump.monmouth.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!newsfeed2.telusplanet.net!newsfeed.telus.net!edtnps84.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Travers Naran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Tonight's Bari Bari Value: The US military References: <3FB0ECEC.E5A78841@yahoo.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <3FB0ECEC.E5A78841@yahoo.co.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 29 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 06:12:38 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.180.239.223 X-Trace: edtnps84 1071900758 64.180.239.223 (Fri, 19 Dec 2003 23:12:38 MST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 23:12:38 MST Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:9102 Eric Takabayashi wrote: > [No, the show did not explain how the US military > served the US or Japan, nor how they are risking life > and limb in the Middle East this very moment, while > they whine and bitch (or ooh and aah) about the "free" > and "easy" lives of the US service personnel.] Nor mentioning that those living State-side who aren't officers don't get it quite so nice. > I am certainly not holding my breath for the show to > remind Japanese that despite all the Japanese pain > during and after the war, the US military is the single > biggest reason they are free today, or why North Korea > is listening to what they have to say. I'm going to play Devil's Advocate: Maybe they still would have been free without U.S. protection if they didn't have the pacifist clause in the constitution? -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Travers Naran | Visit the SFTV Science Blunders F/T Programmer,P/T Meddler In Time&Space | Hall of Infamy! New Westminster, British Columbia, | Canada, Earth, Milky Way, etc. | "Stand Back! I'm a programmer!" | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------