A Rejoinder
I still believe the United States has a responsibility to restore liberty and standards-of-living to - at the least - the levels Iraqis enjoyed under Saddam’s rule. However, there is a very dark possibility that our emmisaries are contributing to the crimes against humanity, rather than fighting to end them.
Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda of Japan voiced anger on Tuesday over accusations that a United States marine had raped a 14-year-old girl in Okinawa, calling the episode “unforgivable.”
In 1995, three American marines gang-raped a 12-year-old girl in Okinawa, setting off large protests there.
Officials in Okinawa, a set of subtropical islands hundreds of miles from the main Japanese islands and an independent kingdom until the 19th century, have long complained that the prefecture is host to most of the more than 40,000 United States soldiers stationed in Japan.