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Monday, June 4, 2012

''On the Town in Okinawa''

From Korea Times

...................''That’s because the future of the U.S. armed forces is under the most intense scrutiny in Asia in a time of rising opposition to their presence, questions about their basic necessity and contradictory worries about defense of the region. It’s as though U.S. forces on Okinawa, including both the Marines and the Air Force, were fighting a new war for survival 67 years after defeating Japanese forces dug in here in the worst battle of the Pacific War. The battle this time is a public relations and political contest playing out against the background of rising concerns over both China and North Korea.''

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