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Japan scrambles fighter jets to head off China plane | News , International | THE DAILY STAR

Britain, France, Turkey want US to bomb Syria and Japan wants to prove its “manhood” and gain ? by threatening China… 

Boys just wanna play at war… but that’s gotta end!

Japan scrambled fighter jets on Monday to head off a Chinese government plane flying towards disputed islands in the East China Sea, the defence ministry in Tokyo said.

A Y-12 propeller plane flew about 100 kilometres (60 miles) from airspace around the Tokyo-controlled Senkakus, which Beijing claims as the Diaoyus, the ministry said.

The aircraft headed back towards China without entering disputed airspace after Japan’s military planes became airborne, defence officials said, declining to give further details.

In December, a similar plane from China’s State Oceanic Administration breached airspace over the disputed islands, prompting the launch of Japanese F-15s.

It was the first known incursion by a Chinese plane into Japanese airspace, the government said at the time.

Monday’s incident came as four Chinese coastguard ships sailed in the contiguous zone around the islands, Japan’s coastguard said.

The moves were the latest in a series by Chinese government ships since Tokyo nationalised three islands in the chain last September, reigniting a long-simmering dispute.

via Japan scrambles fighter jets to head off China plane | News , International | THE DAILY STAR.

US senator on foreign relations committee wants ‘surgical’ air strike against Syria

(Don’t know much about rithmatic but I do know, I love to look tough and crack wise…)

Corker says the Obama administration “feels like there’s no question chemicals were used” and says it is seeking to rally its NATO allies to support a military response.

He adds, “I think it should be surgical, it should be proportional. It should be responsive to what happened on the ground.”

But Corker also said, “I think we can get that right without us getting mired in a conflict.”

via US senator on foreign relations committee wants ‘surgical’ air strike against Syria.

U.N. team headed to site of alleged chemical attack comes under sniper fire, turns back – The Washington Post

Deja vu – Gotta go to war in Iraq, err, Syria… Fool me once, shame on you; twice, shame on me!

The United States has been consulting with its allies about possible responses, and on Monday the foreign ministers of Britain, France and Turkey said in separate radio interviews that they would be prepared to back U.S. action outside the parameters of a United Nations mandate.

via U.N. team headed to site of alleged chemical attack comes under sniper fire, turns back – The Washington Post.

Anime characters fuel interest in Japan’s military amid territorial dispute with China | South China Morning Post

This year, a record 110,000 people applied for the approximately 6,000 places at the military exercises, with some suggesting the sudden sexiness of howitzers and squealing tank tracks is partly thanks to Girls und Panzer.

The animated show revolves around a group of girls – all of whom wear short-skirted school uniforms and have outsize doe-eyes – studying “the way of the tank,” as if it were a martial art.

via Anime characters fuel interest in Japan’s military amid territorial dispute with China | South China Morning Post.

 

Remilitarization and rebuilding Imperial Japan is gaining ground and should be closely watched. 50,000+ Americans killed by them in WWII and millions of Chinese, Koreans, Burmese…

Cameron and Obama move closer to taking military action against their growing unpopularity

I only wish it was satire – Cameron is such a boob and my President keeps wanting to be strong on foreign policy but it puts more in harm’s way and gains us and him nothing,

Pride's Purge

(satire?)

The British prime minister David Cameron and US president Barack Obama are said to have concluded that joint military action in Syria may be required in response to shocking reports of their growing unpopularity in the polls.

Mr Cameron and President Obama moved the west closer to military intervention on Saturday as they agreed that last week’s alleged chemical weapon attacks merited a “serious response” which would enable both western leaders to regain at least some of their lost popularity with voters.

In a phone call that lasted 40 minutes, the two leaders are understood to have concluded that the chemical attack that is believed to have killed as many as 1,400 people in Damascus in the middle of last week was serious enough to gain themselves a few percentage points in the polls.

The prime minister and US president said all options should be kept open, including the…

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Egyptian Aak. Week 34

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Screw Lebanese Media

A Separate State of Mind | A Blog by Elie Fares

Tripoli Sheikh

 

The above sheikh was hosted on NewTV earlier tonight to talk on behalf of the people of Tripoli. I guess that city ran out of spokespeople over the past few days so the TV station in question figured digging this creature up from the depth of whatever abyss he was in was a good idea. Ratings are proportional to beards.

Note that this sheikh is said not to even be from Tripoli and has not been residing there all his life to get to talk on the city’s behalf.

This man spoke about the need for self-security for himself and his fellow Sunnis of Tripoli. Did the TV station in question even bother to target this rhetoric? Of course they didn’t. This is the rhetoric they want being spewed around their airwaves lately. This is what gets people talking. This is what gets people to tune in. Of course…

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