Japanese Tanker Hit

[Walker]

Japanese Tanker Hit

So, anybody else seen this?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38592963/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa

This is kind of interesting to me. For those of you who don't know, the Constitution that Japan adopted after WWII (with, ah, "encouragement" from the US) forbids them from having an offensive military, so instead they have an assortment of Self-Defense Forces. And they're actually pretty serious about it, but in the last 18 years they've started deploying on support missions for the UN, as well as deploying to Iraq at the request of the US-- even armed, which apparently caused some controversy. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Self-Defense_Forces#Peacekeeping)

So, here's the thing-- does anyone think that stuff like this will cause an increase in deployments of the Japanese military? Apparently, they already deployed some Maritime Self Defense Force ships to defend their shipping over that way, but I find it interesting that they're coming out again.

I also find their Coast Guard interesting. It seems to be a law enforcement-rescue-military organization along the lines of the USCG, but from the sound of it their ships are actually more heavily armed than USCG cutters. And their largest JCG vessel is actually bigger than the largest USCG ones-- and where the USCG has icebreakers, they have a pretty long-legged, well-armed... biggish frigate or smallish destroyer.

 

[Sean]

Re: Japanese Tanker Hit

Not surprised. Not expecting terrorism to stop any time soon. It won't end till either: All Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindu's etc are dead, or: All muslims are dead. Give or take, pick or choose. Even then you have to worry about the other smaller groups of terrorists. So probably never

 

[Shirosaki]

Re: Japanese Tanker Hit

Not surprised. Not expecting terrorism to stop any time soon. It won't end till either: All Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindu's etc are dead, or: All muslims are dead. Give or take, pick or choose. Even then you have to worry about the other smaller groups of terrorists. So probably never

Not all terrorists are religiously motivated, and it's not Muslims vs. everyone else. Muslims aren't against anyone.

It's always the minority of extremists who ruin it for everyone else, but saying that all terrorists are religiously motivated is incredibly ignorant :lol:

 

[Sean]

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-_- Didn't mean ALL muslims, sorry. How about er, all Extremist muslims, or in other words al Queda who thinks any other religion is full of infidels. You catch my drift, I think.

 

[cheezMcNASTY]

Re: Japanese Tanker Hit

knowing how the japanese government has acted in the past, they probably will use it as an excuse to push their non offensive military constraints.

and sean, i catch your drift.. but lets leave it there before it becomes another one of these threads.

also, this goes without saying.

 

[Firis]

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I have never seen Japanese Defense Forces in combat, so I cannot so much comment on that, but it will be interesting to see the response in power. Speaking of power in the Orient, N.Korea is getting really pumped up, even more so than before, how long do you guys give it before they strike or we strike?