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...Over the past year Japan's neighborhood has become more dangerous. North Korea conducted missile and nuclear tests; China's defense spending increased nearly 18% to $45 billion. Yet there has been no obvious shift in public sentiment favoring the unshackling of the military. A poll by the Yomiuri Shimbun last month found that 46% of Japanese supported constitutional change. That's slightly higher than the 39% who said they were opposed to change, but it was nine points down from 2006, making this the third consecutive year of declining support...
...stump, Rudd's key words are fairness, flexibility and prosperity. Like former Labor leader Mark Latham, he embodies the point where Labor's social project meets its "economic escalator." Go back to Rudd's maiden speech. It's the education revolution, comrade. The other great wave of sentiment that Labor is riding is shaped more by fear than hope. For Ruddites, it's climate change time. Rudd's approach on global warming is to flay Howard for being a skeptic; any government action taken, Labor claims, is insincere, inadequate or too late. Rudd is on a climate-change crusade...
...This kind of nationalistic response can have an opposite effect as well - when the roles are reversed. In 2002, when two U.S soldiers accidentally ran over two schoolgirls with a tank north of Seoul, anti-American sentiment was widespread in Korea. Some restaurants even hung signboards reading "No Americans" rather than "No Soldiers Allowed." For weeks, thousands of Koreans staged protests against American soldiers, while some Korean media even suggested that the girl's deaths could have been deliberate...
...worse, in a Shi'ite-dominated Iraq, many Sunnis are willing to tacitly or actively support violence by Sunni militants and terrorists. So, the militants have the popular support that is the lifeblood of any insurgency because it allows fighters to camouflage themselves in the civilian population. Political sentiment in the Sunni communities leaves the U.S. military and the Shi'ite-dominated Iraqi government forces largely unable to procure the intelligence required to isolate and destroy their hidden tormentors in Baghdad...
...whose anti-Crimson sentiment was registered when he proclaimed in 2003 that he was “far from a Harvard student,” isn’t a believer. Maybe so, but I’m willing to bet that the Crimson makes it to the postseason sooner than the Brooklyn Nets. Show me what...