The US interest is PEACE

The U.S. interest in an Asian island dispute

America is always at war because the American foreign policy establishment always wants to fight and never wants to admit either that fighting is stupid or that it is hopeless.

Vietnam, for example was both.

That was supposed, for a time, to have taught the country a lesson its rulers refused to learn and have forgotten as soon as they could.

Google "Vietnam syndrome."

The US should have abrogated its treaty with Japan some time back around 1960 and still ought to do so today, at the latest.

US out of everywhere but the Western Hemisphere, above the equator!

NPR this morning had talking on their air some twenty-or-thirty-something woman who warned, in exactly those words, of a new world war if America doesn’t get all this under control.

Not once did she suggest that America’s commitments to Japan are beyond our means as well as our interests.

Let alone South Korea or anybody else in the area.

Why were we so adamantly opposed to Japan in the Pacific, back in the first half of the 20^th Century?

Damned silly of us, wasn’t it?