Shintaro Ishihara wrote:

> > I'm finished frothing at the mouth for the nonce. Suffice to say, I am no
> > longer a big fan of Japan. This place and these people are not worthy of
> > being ranked among humankind because they don't know what it means to belong
> > to that group known as humankind.
>
> Isn't this too much to say when U.S. Neo-Conservatists are massacring
> people all over the world to satisfy their corporate greed and political
> ambition? As far as the public is concerned, Americans are just as
> guilty of being credulous as their airplanes dropping bombs on wrong
> targets.

Which is why much of the antagonism faced by Americans (not the violence) is
understandable, and why I have given up attempting to defend America's history or
politics, openly critical of Iraq policy myself.

But we are addressing problems of Japan, not the US.