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...That's about a military attack on our own sovereignty. But when it comes to global disputes, these should be settled through international cooperation. In other words we have to take a U.N.-centered approach to solve such problems. I think President Obama and his administration also supports this kind of approach. The Bush administration started wars in Afghanistan and in Iraq without any consensus in the international community. At this point in time the United States has reconfirmed and recognized the fact that such disputes will not be settled by a single country. In other words, when it comes...
...OZAWA: As far as Afghanistan is concerned, there is a U.N.-led military organization there called ISAF. Japan will be able to render as much support as possible to that kind of organization under a DPJ government. However, what ISAF is trying to do is to bring peace by suppression, by force. My philosophy is that no people can be ruled by sheer force. In the past Afghanistan was a self-sustaining country in terms of food supply, but now the self-sufficiency rate has plunged to a level of 40%. They are living in a kind of sheer poverty...
...implemented or carried out by the U.S. alone, then Japan is not able to go along with the U.S. But if the international dispute settlement is to be arranged within the United Nations framework, with the cooperation of the international community, then ... Japan should be proactive in rendering support as much as possible...
...home and with few if any independent eyewitnesses, can quickly escalate into more serious confrontations - as in the case of the Gulf of Tonkin "attack" by North Vietnamese patrol boats against a pair of U.S. Navy destroyers that President Lyndon B. Johnson used as a pretext to win congressional support for his war in Vietnam. (See pictures of China's border war with Vietnam...
...actions have been the talk of the town. Banners were hung in his honor in many parts of the capital. And in Saddam Hussein's former stronghold of Tikrit, a statue of a large shoe was erected - but then quickly removed, on orders from the Iraqi parliament. Support for al-Zaidi elsewhere in the Arab world was even more effusive, his seemingly spontaneous act resonating across a region deeply embittered by the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq...