America's three doors...
wchao37  Updated: 2005-04-21 11:10

The House of America has three doors guarded by two island trolls and three lackeys.

The front door, facing the Atlantic and including the Boston-to-Washington D.C. corridor, forms the seat of American political power, and is guarded by the island nation of Britain under Troll Tony Blair.

The back door, facing the Pacific and including the increasingly important economic hub of the San-San (San Diego to San Francisco) corridor, is protected by three lines of defence spanning a third of the global circumference, the first of which is guarded by the island nation of Japan under Troll Junichiro Koizumi.

The pets' door, facing the Chinese mainland across the Taiwan Strait, is guarded by the Taidus under the Lee-Chen-Lu lackeys, who most inexplicably are paying exorbitant sums of money to protect their master.

We are here primarily interested in the First Island Chain where the back and pets' doors are located, and which is formed by the Japanese, Okinawan, Taiwanese and Filipino islands.

This line represents the realpolitik of America's containment of China, and if extended westward through the Strait of Malacca to the Middle East, represents the entire western American defence perimeter today.

Obviously, the pivotal nation at the head of this defence perimeter is Japan.

Japan had bought security and peace on the cheap for more than six decades. Nearly 50,000 US troops based on Okinawa and other islands guarantee the country's security in return for a five billion USD annual fee payable in cash to Washington.

For her, that security bargain enabled her to concentrate all her efforts on economic development for the major part of the last sixty years.

After 911, Washington came to view Japan more as a command post for operations extending to the Middle East than as a vanquished foe that had adopted a half-hearted defence posture. In the intervening three and a half years since that fateful day, the island nation had become a pillar of America's security edifice.

Even though the command headquarters of the US Army's First Corps is scheduled to be transferred from Washington state, on the US Pacific coast, to a camp near Yokohama south of Tokyo, that does not mean American ground troops are going to be stationed closer to the Asian mainland.

On the contrary, state-of-the-art long-range reach by drones and cruise missiles means that American soldiers do not need to be deployed at the frontline if their Japanese counterparts can be used as substitutes.

For instance, the island of Guam in the Second Island Chain presently houses the 13th Air Command which includes long-range B52 bombers carrying 2500-km nuclear-tipped cruise missiles, although lately it has been rumored that the command will be moved to Yokota airbase in Tokyo.

It is now clear that Koizumi has thrown himself stock-and-barrel into the embrace of the neocons, and has therefore deliberately provoked his nation's Korean, Chinese and Russian neighbors through unconscionable history textbook revisions and island disputes in order to forge a siege mentality amongst her home audience.

His sole purpose is to scrap Japan's Peace Constitution for good -- since whatever the people of the provoked nations do can always be spinned into one of violence and aggression against Japan.

For example, Chinese protesters' egg-throwing defiance has already been spinned into mob violence in the Western and Japanese press. Who knows for certain if a Japanese spy is not amongst the demonstrators throwing firebombs? That's why the Chinese government took pains to control the crowds so that they would not be manipulated or misguided by agents with ulterior motives.

Koizumi's instructions to his foreign minister before the latter's visit to China two days ago must have been: "Say anything that the Chinese wish to hear but write nothing down. The only mission for you is to numb them into believing everything in their self-induced hypnotic trance -- that we truly regret what we did in WWII. Chinese people have only five minutes of enthusiasm for this kind of thing as had been proven before in the 1930s. They dare to struggle but they do not dare to win, since winning means being patient and making sacrifices for the long haul."

It is known that the US-Japan security treaty had stipulated that US bases may only be used "for the purpose of contributing to the security of Japan and the maintenance of international peace and security in the Far East." Has anyone heard any mention of Middle Eastern nations like Iran or Iraq in that treaty? No. So that means Japanese involvement in the Middle East is a price she is willing to pay to have the genie bottle uncorked for the release of her abominable militarist spirits.

Unfortunately for East Asians, under Prime Minister Koizumi Japan is in the wrong hands at the wrong moment in history. The British-educated Koizumi has proven to be a particularly hawkish warmonger aiming to shatter any lingering nostalgia for peaceful and prosperous co-existence in East Asia. To dreamers like him wiggling in virtual time machines, neither the Sino-Japanese War nor the Cold War had truly ended.

China seems not to have a worry in the world about an imminent war. Shanghai’s real estate prices are soaring unabated as if there is no tomorrow. Our implacable foe is mouthing peace and regrets but earnestly preparing for war in the East China Sea, while we are talking about prices of second homes in suburban Shanghai.

It is patently obvious that they are in the dark and we are in the open in this asymmetric peekaboo contest. We have no idea when they are going to strike and with what combination of forces.

Don't say I worry too much. At least the land and home speculators in Shanghai weren’t aware anything was wrong until the demonstrations suddenly hit the headlines over the last weekend.

It is therefore worrisome to see Chinese analysts affecting disbelief and rationalizing as to why Americans and Japanese are still harboring the Cold War Mentality. The sad truth is that neither of the two had ever taken a moment’s respite away from such a mentality after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. On the contrary, both have exploited the absence of the Russian bear to grab a bigger piece of pie.

Instead of touting the 21st century as a golden opportunity to further Asian solidarity, the Japanese want to make this their own performing stage for military confrontations under the auspices of their neocon masters. She is searching intensively for ballistic-missile as well as satellite-intelligence capabilities as reflected in the content of her H2 rocket payloads. All this points to one thing -- they are preparing for war.

That explains the abruptly aggressive fireworks display featuring the dastardly history textbook revisions; adoption of a common military platform to "defend Taiwan"; pre-emptive strikes against North Korea and a nuclear deterrent option all emanating simultaneously in a cacophony of madness from this rogue nation.

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