You Could Set Your Watch By It

It’s March, and the South Korean government has cranked up the fightin’ words about Takeshima Tokto . . . which means that we must be about a month until the next South Korean election. More here.

I can’t understand that bone-headed Japanese rightists would actually fail to see this connection in picking the timing of a stunt like this one. Certainly not calculated to achieve the desired objective; but it always gets the South Korean red guards stirred up just in time.

Some people have an inexhaustible appetite for manipulation.