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...profoundly suspicious of military institutions, including their own. In 1988 when a Japanese submarine struck and sank a pleasure boat in Tokyo Bay and sailors stood by while 30 passengers drowned, a wave of resentment against the military swept the country. In recent years American service personnel in Okinawa?who make up half of the 47,000 stationed in Japan?have been similarly subjected to censure for repeated outrages such as raping a 12-year-old Okinawan and taking pictures up unsuspecting girls' skirts. Last week, four days after the sinking of the Ehime Maru, Okinawa police asked...
...Except for on the island of Okinawa, nobody in the Japanese power structure really wants the Americans to leave, because our presence is seen as a vital deterrent to North Korea and China. That's not going to change as a result of this submarine accident. On Okinawa, in particular, relations have been a little strained - only last week a Marine commander was forced to apologize for calling the Okinawans wimps and nuts in an e-mail. But the bottom line is that even though the submarine crash was a terrible tragedy, it's not going to drive our forces...
...much damage, really? The losers, their minds reverberating with their own dire rhetoric, will work themselves into a state. They will want to fling themselves off cliffs, like the Japanese on Okinawa when the Americans arrived in 1945. That's the human nature of politics. When Rudolph Giuliani first ran for mayor of New York City, the editorial board of The New York Times sounded as if Hitler himself aspired to City Hall. In the fullness of time, the Times came to concede that in many respects, Giuliani proved to be an excellent mayor...
...Arafat began playing "luggage diplomacy," ordering aides to put bags outside doors to threaten walkouts. By Wednesday night, July 19, even Clinton was ready to close down the talks, but at the last minute Barak and Arafat decided to remain at Camp David with Albright, while Clinton flew to Okinawa for the G-8 economic summit...
That's what cell phones are for: Much of the hallway chatter in Okinawa was about the strange near-death and rebirth of the Camp David talks just hours before Clinton departed last Wednesday. Officials insist it was not a ploy. In fact, National Security Council spokesman P. J. Crowley left Thurmont after announcing the talks were done and started driving back to the White House in preparation for leaving for Japan. As he drove, knowing that Clinton would have to motorcade back because bad weather grounded the chopper, he kept looking in his rear-view mirror for the speeding...