tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714063.post2272411682276417716..comments2023-10-09T00:45:55.603+09:00Comments on Shisaku: I have eaten strange thingsMTChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04626942240117432624noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714063.post-50368376494126375022007-09-20T11:29:00.000+09:002007-09-20T11:29:00.000+09:00Okumura-san - Just think of the goodwill expended,...Okumura-san - <BR/><BR/>Just think of the goodwill expended, especially with the Brits! Of what possible use could supporting such an inclusion be to Gordon Brown and the UK delegation?<BR/><BR/>As I guessed, the Russians have gagged on the idea.<BR/><BR/>As for the report, I am not surprised at Aso's puported involvement and Nakagawa's possibly going through the motions with an indifferent shrug (Why should he care when he was going to be replaced so soon afterward?)<BR/><BR/>Machimura's involvement, however, seems inexplicable. I would love to see the Democrats grill him on what he, the once and future MOFA minister, thought he was doing--if he indeed was doing it.MTChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04626942240117432624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714063.post-76405714465672393942007-09-20T10:44:00.000+09:002007-09-20T10:44:00.000+09:00You probably have seen it already, but for the ben...You probably have seen it already, but for the benefit of your readers, today's hard copy <I>Yomiuri</I> says that Hidenao Nakagawa, Nobutaka Machimura and Taro Aso began pushing for a resolution after the Upper House election. Although some crucial details are missing, what looks on the face of it to be a dubious piece of legal tactics that MOFA Vice Minister Yachi initially resisted seems to have been turned into a harmless – helpful at the fringes? - exercise in public communications as MOFA managed to slip the refueling operations into the (usually) legally inoperative preamble to the ISAF extension draft resolution.<BR/><BR/>No harm, no foul.<BR/><BR/>A jmbighvu and a top 'o the mornin' to you!Jun Okumurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00291478225274759649noreply@blogger.com