Japanese economy, brought back the right-wing Japanese war criminals to power and solidified a US-Japanese military alliance that persists to this day and has coddled dictators like Ferdinand Marcos, Park Chung Hee, Chun Doo Hwan, Suharto and too many others to mention. Is the AFL now going to back the Clinton-Republican proposals to create an anti-missile defense against China, wasting trillions of dollars? Why not - after all, Becker denounced China's nuclear missiles and its support for North Korea. Are they going to continue backing the deployment of 100,000 US troops in Asia forever, as the Clinton administration has done? China has serious human rights problems but is NOT our enemy as many of the leading lights in the Republican party and the CIA seem to believe. This kind of rally appeals to the most base anti-communist, anti-Asian instincts in America. Why not get John McCain on the stage to blast 'the gooks'? I'm sure that would get a rousing cheer just as Buchanan's! !
sneering reference to Chinese chopsticks did. I grew up in Japan and Korea during the Cold War. I saw first hand the terrible impact of American militarism, particularly on Korea, and that experience changed my life and brought me into a life of activism starting with opposition to the Vietnam War in 1965. This China rally yesterday could have taken place 50 years ago. To those who think the revolution has arrived (and some comments on this list in recent days make that assumption) please take your rose colored glasses off. This is scary stuff.