Clark Kent
<B>News Bot</B>
- Joined
- Sep 11, 2006
- Messages
- 7,128
- Reaction score
- 6
Clarify Futenma's military role
By - 03-13-2010 04:10 PM
Originally Posted at: The Japan Times Online
====================
The March 7 article "Emotionalized debate blurs valuable functions of Futenma," by Dan Melton and Robert D. Eldridge, characterized my statement that the U.S. Marine Corp Air Station at Futenma, Okinawa, "has not been operational since the termination of the Vietnam War" (from the Feb. 14 letter "Air base mystifies, not the alliance") as an example of the "wild" statements surrounding the Futenma controversy.
I am happy to concede that my statement could be construed as incomplete though it is clear enough from context, one would think. By "operational," I meant that no U.S. Marines have been dispatched from Futenma into Asian theaters of war for the past 35 years. The statement was worded on the premise that, given the present realities within Okinawa, the air station needs to fulfill its primary function of enabling, resisting or deterring attack, to justify a replacement on Okinawan soil.
Read More...
------------------------------------
The Japan Times Online
By - 03-13-2010 04:10 PM
Originally Posted at: The Japan Times Online
====================
The March 7 article "Emotionalized debate blurs valuable functions of Futenma," by Dan Melton and Robert D. Eldridge, characterized my statement that the U.S. Marine Corp Air Station at Futenma, Okinawa, "has not been operational since the termination of the Vietnam War" (from the Feb. 14 letter "Air base mystifies, not the alliance") as an example of the "wild" statements surrounding the Futenma controversy.
I am happy to concede that my statement could be construed as incomplete though it is clear enough from context, one would think. By "operational," I meant that no U.S. Marines have been dispatched from Futenma into Asian theaters of war for the past 35 years. The statement was worded on the premise that, given the present realities within Okinawa, the air station needs to fulfill its primary function of enabling, resisting or deterring attack, to justify a replacement on Okinawan soil.
Read More...
------------------------------------
The Japan Times Online
