[lbo-talk] Japan minister raps "blond" diplomats in Mideast

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 3/22/07, uvj at vsnl.com <uvj at vsnl.com> wrote:
> Reuters.com
>
> Japan minister raps "blond" diplomats in Mideast
> http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUST15199220070322
>
> Thu Mar 22, 2007
<snip>
> Aso said then he had not intended to be discriminatory.
> Japan has long felt it has a special role to play in the Middle East because
> it lacks much of the political baggage of the United States, allowing for
> warmer ties with Arab nations.

Why don't they put that into practice for once and come up with a
different Middle East policy than Washington's?  It doesn't have to be
a policy of solidarity -- it just needs to be a good business policy
-- there are a great deal of oil reserves waiting for Japanese
investment -- independent of Washington's geopolitical design.
-- 
Yoshie