US troop relocation in Okinawa

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/10/26/news/okinawa.php

Reading the article, I'm reminded a question that has long plagued me: What the fuck are they doing there in the first place? When I read about the rape.. 7 fucking years? They get 15 in the US.

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9603/okinawa_rape/

Why are troops even in Japan? NO JAPANESE EXCEPT THE POLITICIANS WANT THEM THERE. It's one of the most peaceful and liberal places on the face of the earth, and we need a killing-machine airbase in it? Is this dollar-gunboat diplomacy or are we going to pull the fucking "need to watch Korea" excuse?

I'll never understand why America needed to go this route and become just another asshole superpower. The founders wouldn't have wanted this.

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what the fuck else is new? replace those two countries by any other country on earth and you get the same fact.

japan acted no differently against china than spain acted against central america, britain acted against north america, germany acted against russia, or democracy acted against eastern europe.

Command and conquer, deal with it or gtfo. If you're seriously still going to hold something like that against a country that met a higher quality of life than any other in the span it takes for your country to decide if poor people need food then you need to read a history book.

Japan is the finest, most well-developed superpower to ever grace mankind, period.