https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-at-us-bases-on-okinawa-after-japanese-womans So when a military force holds a place for 70 years, rapes the local children, murders women, and refuses to leave, why do we call them heroes, and why do they continue to stay? If Israel did these things there would be worldwide outcry and about 20 NGOs making a stink about this. Discuss.
As Marine vet, I'll say that the Okinawans have every right to demand that the base leaves. Marines, especially the infantry battalions that deploy there are not known to respect the local area. There have been several cases of unruly Marines disrespecting the Okinawans and one incident of a Marine raping a Okinawan in 1995.
Yes, well...I'm wondering what the Tru Patriotz have to say. I don't know if you noticed, but in the last 20 years or so, the whole country has taken its love of the military somewhere that's nearly NSFW.
Not that I'm making light of the seriousness of this marines actions but I would imagine that the okinawans have probably raped a few of their own in that same timeframe. Obama is a blight on international relations. He is a blight on national relations as well.
US liberals everywhere are rubbing one out to this story, it gives them an excuse to bash the military, something they basically live for but is considered unacceptable these days among people that matter.
The described events in Okinawa that have been perpetrated by US Marines are unfortunate. That said, tell the Okinawans to go suck an egg.
Obama's weakness on display again. President Trump will build the biggest, classiest military base in Okinawa and the Okinawans will welcome the biggest classiest American military.
Yes, and when the US slave-era generation died out so to did all racial bigotry - which explains why there is no racial bigotry anywhere in the US, what so ever.
A military decision made by military commanders to attack another nation's military installation unprovoked is something that is ingrained within culture as much as 300 years of slavery and the rhetoric to justify it using religion and racism? K.
Oh, how cute. You think that what the Japanese did was just a spur-of-the-moment, isolated event with no relation or context to previous centuries of Japanese history? K.
Wasn't spur of the moment but common sense dictates that 300 years of trying to justify slavery with the Bible and explicit racism has more deep rooted affects in culture than military commanders deciding to attack Pearl Harbor. How many modern Japanese people are reminiscing about Imperial Japan? How many modern Americans reminisce about the Confederacy?
