The article is jam-packed with great quotes, mostly centered around a Western mind-boggle on Japan's isolationism. At one comment, I thought to myself, well, umm... shit, if that's your attitude, United States, I think anyone would choose to be isolated.
"Japan is a semi-barbarous empire, exhibiting the curious spectacle to mankind of a nation which, in its whole history, has neither retrograded or advanced, and we of the United States being convinced that a manifest destiny bids us 'conquer its prejudices,' propose to knock open a passage-way with ball, bullet, and bomb, to let in revelation, and a few annual cargos of cotton cloth."
It's happy to see our rootin' tootin' guns a'blazin' attitute has stayed true to the mark for 155 years.
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I feel like Bill Kristol wrote that. This Blog is awesome!
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