[quote=@Vilageidiotx]
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Shit, I dunno, do we want to let that tiger out of the bag? Those crazy shits can do a war. 
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I surely do. WORLD POLICE is a source of friction. Give Japan a military and the DPRK -- whenever it goes, it's inevitable that it goes at some point -- will be the moment in history when the US, China, Japan, Russia, and SK (and possibly the EU and everybody else) joins the battlefield all together as allies. 

On the one hand, I want to bring as many nations as possible into the new-world-order that will arise from that future alliance (because it will be absolutely necessary, for humanitarian reasons). On the other, I am all in favor of international security which is not wholly dependent on US foreign policy. Give Japan an army and let [i]them[/i] worry about the South China Sea. I mean I don't need the South China Sea for anything. You need it for anything?