As Walter wisely noted, “Dude, the CHinaman is not the issue, Dude!”
Let us all take pause to those sage words.

“….For 2 years prior to Pearl Harbor Australia did all the heavy lifting against Japan, inflicting the imperial army’s first defeats…”

Need to review your Aussie mil history here soju. British Empire and its dominions did not declare war on Japan until after Pearl Harbor.

It’s certainly true that the Australian Army and Air Force were heavily involved in WWII prior to Pearl Harbor, but this was as part of the British Empire forces fighting the Germans and Italians, mainly in the Mediterranean theater.

After the disastrous loss of Malaya and the surrender of Singapore in Dec 41-Jan 42 (which involved some Australian forces, can’t remember how many offhand), your Prime Minister at the time (Curtin?) insisted on the return to the Australian theater of two(?) divisions of Australian troops, from North Africa. (Churchill wanted these divisions diverted to assist in the defense of Burma; good thing they weren’t, as Burma was also lost to the Japanese in mid-1942).

These two divisions ended up doing some extremely hard fighting against the Japanese, for which they didn’t get enough credit (except among their fellow Australians). But this was after Pearl Harbor (7 Dec 1941).

let’s keep in mind that armitage wrote the piece, ok? armitage does not have a very good track record on predictiing the future. let’s remember that he was part of the team who brought us phrases like ‘it’ll be a cakewalk.’ ‘they’ll greet us as liberators.’ in other words, the guy is just a washed up neocon clinging to his now defunct ideology.

When Roh declared that Korea is the “balancer of East Asia”, he, as always, didn’t think throughly before opening his mouth.

If Roh had been thinking before he opened his mouth, he would’ve declared that Korea is the “whore of Asia”.

What Roh didn’t realize before the speech is that the ROK doesn’t have the economic, military, and political clout to influence anybody in East Asia, and it certainly doesn’t have what it takes to go on its own way. At the same time, he helped further alienate its most important ally which isn’t helping things either.

Right now, the only road the ROK can take to ensure its security while having its say in the future of East Asia is to drop its unrealistic and nationalistic dreams of being an independent power and strengthen its alliance with the US, by doing its part. Simply mouthing ,”The alliance is important” and/or making symbolic contributions, just for the sake of saying ”Hey, we did our part” won’t do.

China lawmaker pitches ‘Humiliation Day’
http://tinyurl.com/yveg2o

Even including U.S. military personnel and ethnic Koreans holding U.S. citizenship is that accurate?