white house: Netanyahu visit "destructive". Yikes

[metroxian]

Japan's long wait to address US Congress
April 29, 2015

WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington honors America's closest friends by inviting their leaders to address a joint meeting of Congress, but Wednesday's speech by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be the first by a Japanese leader. That's striking considering the tight U.S.-Japan alliance in the 70 years since World War II ended. British, South Korean and German leaders have been invited multiple times. So have two Liberian presidents and a Latvian one - more than 100 invitations overall since the war. So why not Japan? The answers have to do with underlying friction that has been a part of U.S.-Japanese relations and, more recently, frequent changes of Japanese leaders.

[Devon011]

Originally Posted by metroxian

Japan's long wait to address US Congress
April 29, 2015

Yea a lot of that friction comes from the Japanese people not wanting the 20,000+ U.S. troops and base there in Okinawa anymore.

[MMM05]

Originally Posted by southward bound

I'm not sure the world has any more courage or moral fiber today than it did in Hitler's day. I would hope we have leaders who would, but I don't see it.

No, man nor woman is there Now!! Nor capable of Stopping the Corruption.