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- From: thomasd@tps.COM (Thomas W. Day)
- Subject: Re: America Doesn't have a Clue (was Say Yes to Japan)
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:20:19 GMT
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- In article <7556@bigbird.hri.com.hri.com> blamb@hri.com (Bill Lambert) writes:
-
- >Japanese business is aggressive and effective, it's true.
- >However, the goals as stated above are not their goals
- >in any more of a sense than they are the goals of the US.
-
- Which goals are not theirs? That they want to dominate the world economy?
-
- >The goals of Japanese business and their partnership
- >with government and each other is to establish these
- >economic targets as a means of securing their national
- >defense.
-
- That is true. What I am calling a war is not the traditional definition
- with bombs and guns. It is still a war with the goal of winning control of
- resources and people.
-
- >I don't see their view can be considered a fault any
- >more than we would consider the military actions and
- >political moves the US has made in the last 50 years
- >to be totally immoral or unfair.
-
- "Totally immoral" would be putting anything out of perspective, but I still
- don't consider Viet Nam a moral war and I'm not saying that Japan fighting
- for control of the U.S. is immoral from their point of view. I'm saying it
- is a war and we are too dumb and lazy to fight it.
-
- >It's the same attitude in a different domain, and the
- >only domain in which the world at large would allow them to
- >play in. That they have done well at it without effective
- >political or military influence is a testimony to their
- >efforts. Had we put the same energy in to the same sorts
- >of endeavor as they, instead of into the military and political
- >spheres, it might be a different story in the economic arena.
-
- Right. Exactly what I am talking about. But if we don't fight the war the
- same way they do, we are foolish and bound to lose.
-