Why do we (the US) still have troops in the Phillipines, S. Korea, and Japan? I can understand the S. Korea one because of the North Koreans, but what is with the rest of them? Can we not take them out? Everything seems stable in Japan
2006-11-11 09:03:56 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
The Phillipines are far from stable.
As part of the end of WWII Japan was forbidden to raise a military. We are there to provide them with protection. Japan wants us there.
2006-11-11 09:07:14 · answer #1 · answered by mymadsky 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
logistics as its easier to deploy in Asia from there also under the terms of surrender by Japan after WWII we were given perminate bases there, the Phillipeans is still officially a protectorite of the US even though it is a Independent nation
2006-11-11 17:15:29 · answer #2 · answered by paulisfree2004 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As I understand it we have been trying for ages to get Japan to carry the cost of its own army but they keep smiling and pointing to the Constitution MacArthur wrote that says they can't have one. So we're stuck paying for it.
No one said they were stupid.
2006-11-11 17:48:10 · answer #3 · answered by DAR 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Global domination.
2006-11-11 17:21:13 · answer #4 · answered by Perplexed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question!
I have no answer except someone is making money out of it!
2006-11-11 17:07:27 · answer #5 · answered by Old Guy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They want us there.
It's just part of our foreign aid.
And if there is trouble in that part of the world, we are already there to handle it.
2006-11-11 17:06:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
my tonka truck was made in japan, so was my mamas boyfriend
2006-11-11 17:05:36 · answer #7 · answered by TARD 1 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Democrats don't trust their capitalism
2006-11-11 17:06:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋