"The Toynbee-Ikeda Dialogue"
Man Himself Must Choose
Arnold Toynbee
Daisaku Ikeda
First edi., 1976
First papaerback edi., 1982
Proxy Wars and Asia
IKEDA: Tension and opposition between the huge powers like the Soviet Union, China, and the United states threaten the medium and small nations of Asia and other parts of the world. Do you believe that the world is likely to suffer other tragedies like the Vietnam War? If such a proxy war, in which great powers fight without declaring themselves openly as belligerents, happens again, what steps can medium and small nations take to avoid becoming involved?
TOYNBEE: Unhappily, no matter how cautions small and medium nations may be, they are likely to become involved in wars of this kind against their wishes. For instance, Cambodia, a small unmilitary nation of very peaceful people, fell victim to American policy in Southeast Asia. The United States determined that North and South Vietnam should not be united. North Vietnam challenged the American decision and decided to take military action. but the only way to do this was to operate along the Ho Chi Minh trail through Cambodia. The Cambodians were powerless. If they had tried to stop the course of events, the North Vietnamese would have overrun their country. Prince Sihanouk had no choice but to allow the North Vietnamese to have their way. The President Nixon very wrongly extended the war into Cambodia with the result that civil war raged through and destroyed this once peaceful nation. The most tragic aspect has been the powerlessness and Blamelessness of the Cambodians.
Other Southeast Asian countries, too, have been sucked into the Vietnamese conflict. Thailand, like Japan an independent nation that has never known colonial rule, could scarcely refuse when the United States pressed for permission to build air bases on her soil. Thus Thailand unwillingly became implicated in the war. Australia and New Zealand, small nations that saw from the fall of Singapore that Britain could no longer protect them, turned to the United States because these two nations had a very real, if unfounded, fear of East Asia. The United States then compelled them to take part in the Vietnam War against their inclinations. p190
IKEDA: "...the very nature of warfare has been changed by the development of nuclear weapons." p191
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Birds of a feather do stick together and has nothing to do with the fear of East Asia. It's a case of fanatic Christian covetousness. Hawaii, like Japan an independent nation that had never known colonial rule, suffered U.S. belligerent occupation with forced assimilation and its use of Manifest Destiny doctrines for compliance; disregarding Hawai'i's status as a peer to the U.S. at the time of the U.S. unlawful invasion and belligerent occupation. The U.S. also ignored Hawai'i's neutral status which it was recognized in 1854 and reinforced throughout the decades even when the U.S. was going through it's Civil War.
The U.S. used its Spanish-American war to veil the takeover and belligerent occupation of Hawai'i in its pursuit of expansionism. The U.S. imaginary fear of European influence over the islands would threaten it's coastal borders and decided to control Hawai'i as an expendable outpost to protect its coastal borders and to gain naval dominance in the Pacific.
The assault on our friendly, neutral nation was covert and overt to stage a phony revolution to covet what was never theirs to take under international laws and otherwise. The U.S. corporate oligarchy hides behind the shield of democracy which it makes a mockery of and has duped its citizens into slavery and compliance.
With today's technologies and communication availabilities, the small nations can coalesce in one body to drive out the perpetrators and lawless corporate powers, the criminal warmongering financial institutions and the military industrial complex leeches. Soon the people within these major powers will throw off their own enslavement to these oligarchial bureaucrats and true forms of democracy will prevail.
Tane
Long Live The Hawaiian Kingdom, o Pomaiokalani, Hawaiian Kingdom National Royalist 1993
"With today's technologies and communication availabilities, the small nations can coalesce in one body to drive out the perpetrators and lawless corporate powers, the criminal warmongering financial institutions and the military industrial complex leeches. Soon the people within these major powers will throw off their own enslavement to these oligarchial bureaucrats and true forms of democracy will prevail."
Much love
By Star-Advertiser staff
U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye said today that an agreement has been reached with Gov. Linda Lingle on a native Hawaiian federal recognition bill.
The new version of the bill would still grant sovereign authority to native Hawaiians prior to, rather than after, negotiations with the federal and state governments on land use and cultural issues. But it would allow the state to maintain its ability to regulate for health and safety issues and make clear that members of a new Hawaiian government entity are not immune from criminal prosecution. Lingle had objected to granting Hawaiians sovereign authority prior to negotiations, but is satisfied with the state protections in the new version.
Inouye said he is scheduled to speak to the White House about the new version tomorrow. The Obama administration had backed granting sovereign authority to native Hawaiians prior to negotiations so Hawaiians would be treated similarly to federally recognized American Indians and native Alaskans.
Inouye, D-Hawaii, said he hopes the bill can now come to a Senate vote this month.
U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka, the bill's main sponsor, has been pushing for a vote this year and was urged by Inouye and others to act quickly because time is running out before the November elections, which could change the political composition of the Senate. The bill has been pending in Congress for a decade and has stalled because of opposition from Senate Republicans who see it as race-based discrimination.
Akaka informed state Attorney General Mark Bennett on Friday that he and Inouye had accepted the amendments to the bill.
Bennett said today that the amendments would allow the Lingle administration to once again support the bill.