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THE CONSERVATIVE REVIEW - February 5, 2010
Bring Our Marines Home
by Pat Buchanan
A month after Germany surrendered in May 1945, America's
eyes turned to the Far East, where the bloodiest battle
of the Pacific war was joined on the island of Okinawa.
Twelve thousand U.S. soldiers and Marines would die --
twice as many dead in 82 days of fighting as have died
in all the years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Within weeks of the battle's end came Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. Three weeks later, Gen. MacArthur took the
Japanese surrender on the battleship Missouri.
That was 65 years ago, as far away in time from today as
the Marines' arrival at Da Nang was from Teddy Roosevelt's
charge up San Juan Hill.
Yet the Marines are still on Okinawa. But, in 2006, the
United States negotiated a $26 billion deal to move 8,000
to Guam and the other Marines from the Futenma air base
in the south to the more isolated town of Nago on the
northern tip. Okinawans have long protested the crime,
noise and pollution at Futenma.
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The problem arose last year when the Liberal Democratic
Party that negotiated the deal was ousted and the
Democratic Party of Japan elected on a promise to pursue
a policy more balanced between Beijing and Washington.
The new prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, indicated his
unease with the Futenma deal, and promised to review it
and decide by May. Voters in Nago just elected a mayor
committed to keeping the new base out.
This weekend, thousands demonstrated in Tokyo against
moving the Marine air station to Nago. Some demanded
removal of all U.S. forces from Japan. After 65 years,
they want us out. And Prime Minister Hatoyama has been
feeding the sentiment. In January, he terminated Japan's
eight-year mission refueling U.S. ships aiding in the
Afghan war effort.
All of which raises a question. If Tokyo does not want
Marines on Okinawa, why stay? And if Japanese regard
Marines as a public nuisance, rather than a protective
force, why not remove the irritant and bring them home?
Indeed, why are we still defending Japan? She is no longer
the ruined nation of 1945, but the second-largest economy
on earth and among the most technologically advanced.
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The Sino-Soviet bloc against which we defended her in the
Cold War dissolved decades ago. The Soviet Union no longer
exists. China is today a major trading partner of Japan.
Russia and India have long borders with China, but neither
needs U.S. troops to defend them.
Should a clash come between China and Japan over the
disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, why should
that involve us?
Comes the retort: American troops are in Japan to defend
South Korea and Taiwan. But South Korea has a population
twice that of the North, an economy 40 times as large,
access to the most advanced weapons in the U.S. arsenal
and a U.S. commitment to come to her defense by air and
sea in any second Korean War.
And if there is a second Korean War, why should the 28,000
U.S. troops still in Korea, many on the DMZ, or Marines
from Futenma have to fight and die? Is South Korea lack-
ing for soldiers? Seoul, too, has been the site of anti-
American demonstrations demanding we get out.
Why do we Americans seem more desperate to defend these
countries than their people are to have us defend them?
Is letting go of the world we grew up in so difficult?
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Consider Taiwan. On his historic trip to Beijing in 1972,
Richard Nixon agreed Taiwan was part of China. Jimmy
Carter recognized Beijing as the sole legitimate govern-
ment. Ronald Reagan committed us to cut back arms sales
to Taiwan.
Yet, last week, we announced a $6.4 billion weapons sale
to an island we agree is a province of China. Beijing,
whose power is a product of the trade deficits we have
run, is enraged that we are arming the lost province she
is trying to bring back to the motherland.
Is it worth a clash with China to prevent Taiwan from
assuming the same relationship to Beijing the British
acceded to with Hong Kong? In tourism, trade, travel and
investment, Taiwan is herself deepening her relationship
with the mainland. Is it not time for us to cut the cord?
With the exception of the Soviet Union, few nations in
history have suffered such a relative decline in power and
influence as the United States in the last decade. We are
tied down in two wars, are universally disliked and are
running back-to-back deficits of 10 percent of gross
domestic product, as our debt is surging to 100 percent of
GDP.
A strategic retreat from Eurasia to our own continent and
country is inevitable. Let it begin by graciously acceding
to Japan's request we remove our Marines from Okinawa and
politely inquiring if they wish us to withdraw U.S. forces
from the Home Islands, as well.
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