"To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing,
if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?"
-- Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 1803

Join me or die!

by Lee

Japan should marry Spain.

Thousands of protesters packed an outdoor auditorium in Tokyo on Friday to call for the early withdrawal of Japanese troops from Iraq after three Japanese civilians were taken hostage in southern Iraq on Thursday.

But Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi denounced the terrorists’ threats to burn three hostages alive as “cowardly” and vowed that Japanese troops would stay in Iraq despite tearful pleas from the captives’ families and calls by protesters to bow to the gunmen’s demands.

Bow to the gunmen’s demands.  How pacificstic.  You know, I think that we might have gone a little overboard pacifying Japan and Germany after WWII.

“I am disrespectful to America.  Can you see that I am serious?  Out of my way, all of you.  This is no place for loafers!  Join me or die!  Can you do any less?”

If Mr. Sparkle can banish dirt to the land of wind and ghosts, perhaps he could do something about that pesky Islamist problem other than capitulation and appeasement.  If anyone should know what the use of force can accomplish it should be the Japanese.  They went from the Bushido warrior culture that took over most of the Pacific to becoming the pacifist wimps they are today.  Good for Koizumi for telling them to go roll sushi.

(If you don’t get any of the Mr. Sparkle references, see here.)

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