DUDE. Stop this! Bwah. (No, wait, I take that back, DON'T! STOP! repeat really fast ten times.) I just spent about an hour with CP discussing Japanese postwar behaviors versus German and then segue'd into US debates post Obama-election about whether we should (or should not) try political leaders of the previous administration who may've condoned breaking the Geneva Conventions. And so on.
(And then with a slightly chilling side note -- CP actually was there during those riots during the Security Treaty votes -- he could see the crowds from the American consul. Man. I'm telling you, he was in Japan for those riots, he was in Hong Kong during the Cultural Revolution... so far he's not brought down any riots or ethnic cleansings since I've been with him, but believe you me, when he says he wants to move somewhere, I check the place verrrrrry carefully...)
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Date: 30 Jul 2010 04:49 am (UTC)(And then with a slightly chilling side note -- CP actually was there during those riots during the Security Treaty votes -- he could see the crowds from the American consul. Man. I'm telling you, he was in Japan for those riots, he was in Hong Kong during the Cultural Revolution... so far he's not brought down any riots or ethnic cleansings since I've been with him, but believe you me, when he says he wants to move somewhere, I check the place verrrrrry carefully...)