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- From: dirceu@taurus.cse.kyutech.ac.jp (Dirceu G. Cavendish Jr.)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan
- Subject: Re: America Doesn't have a Clue (was Say Yes to Japan)
- Followup-To: soc.culture.japan
- Date: 23 Dec 92 05:47:18 GMT
- Organization: Kyushu Institute of Tech., Iizuka, JAPAN.
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- In-reply-to: blamb@hri.com's message of 22 Dec 92 19:05:14 GMT
-
- In article <7556@bigbird.hri.com.hri.com> blamb@hri.com (Bill Lambert) writes:
-
- >Japanese business is aggressive and effective, it's true.
- >However, the goals as stated above are not their goals
- >in any more of a sense than they are the goals of the US.
-
- Exactly. Look at the free market trade model USA is trying to sell to
- latim american countries. People talk about how much of american GNP
- goes to pay loan's interest to japanese banks. What about the money
- paid to IMF banks from third world countries. In general, loans taken
- under obscure conditions (for not saying illegal), bribing high
- positioned corrupted politicians, the same kind of people one claims
- is selling USA to Japan...
-
- >The goals of Japanese business and their partnership
- >with government and each other is to establish these
- >economic targets as a means of securing their national
- >defense. When there are few other options available to
- >them in the 'traditional' sense of establishing a
- >national defense policy, and an autonomous sphere of
- >influence even within their own geographical area, then
- >I don't see their view can be considered a fault any
- >more than we would consider the military actions and
- >political moves the US has made in the last 50 years
- >to be totally immoral or unfair.
- >
- >It's the same attitude in a different domain, and the
- >only domain in which the world at large would allow them to
- >play in. That they have done well at it without effective
- >political or military influence is a testimony to their
- >efforts. Had we put the same energy in to the same sorts
- >of endeavor as they, instead of into the military and political
- >spheres, it might be a different story in the economic arena.
- >
- >But... weeze paid our money and mades our choices.
- >
- >- Bill Lambert
-
- Believing that America government plays fairly just makes one fool himself.
- Stop looking up to the japanese and have a look to the third world countries
- and their relations with USA to realize how fair is USA government.
-
- Dirceu
-