Very practical reasoning! Thanks for the insight, Wayne.
==Dan
At 01:54 PM 02/13/2003 +0900, you wrote:
>In answer to Dan's question, Here's what i think most Japanese think about N
>Korea's nukes. Allow me the first person plural here.
>
>We sympathize with the suffering people, but it's like dealing with the US.
>It's not
>the people we got to deal with but the pathologicals in the military-state
>apparatus.
>
>It makes us nervous that their nukes point this way. They don't have the
>longrange muscle to hit the US, so if they go berserk we're the likely
>first target. We wish there was big oil under N Korea so the US would get
>interested.
>
>We're also pissed off that N Korea snatched our citizens back in the 70s,
>and even
>now when they admit it won't give 'em all back.
>
>And we could do without spyships disguised as off-course fishing boats.
>
>Wayne Pounds
>Tokyo
>
>
>Daniel Pearlman wrote:
>
> > Wayne,
> > How do the Japanese feel about N. Korea's nukes?
> > ==Dan P
> >
> > At 08:00 AM 02/12/2003 +0900, you wrote:
> > >Remembering the recent comments on Billy Collins, I offer the list this
> > >link to an Associated Press article called "US Poet LaureateOpposes War
> > >with Iraq." In England, meanwhile, poet laureate Andrew Motion has
> > >written an anti-war poem that cites "elections, money, empire, oil" as
> > >the motivation for war.
> > >
> > >
> > >http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0206-07.htm
> > >
> > >I found this article linked at
> > >http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/default.htm
> > >
> > >Wayne Pounds
> > >Tokyo
> >
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Dan Pearlman's home page:
http://pages.zdnet.com/danpearl/danpearlman/
My new fiction collection, THE BEST-KNOWN MAN IN THE WORLD AND OTHER
MISFITS, may be ordered online at http://www.aardwolfpress.com/
"Perfectly-crafted gems": Jack Dann, Nebula & World Fantasy Award winner
Director, Council for the Literature of the Fantastic:
http://www.uri.edu/artsci/english/clf/
OFFICE:
Department of English
University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI 02881
Tel.: 401 874-4659
Fax: (253) 681-8518
email: [log in to unmask]
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