Reply #16: Although that is technically true, I think it would be more accurate to say... [View All]

[Bonobo]

that the US has its armed forces in Japan so that it can project its own power, for its own purposes, into the Eastern hemisphere.
No serious person here really believes that the US has any magnanimous sense of responsibility to protect Japan, and I daresay that if the shit came down, the US would be watching its own ass well before it worried about protecting anyone here.