Hit and run scandal in Okinawa

As a citizen of the United States, I agree completely that it is morally reprehensible for a U.S. Marine Corp major to get away with this drunken (?) hit and run motor vehicle accident. As a democratic Socialist I don't understand why the U.S. military presence is still tolerated in Okinawa. In general DRUNKENNESS is the great American military tradition when our heroic soldiers are not dutifully occupied killing various and numerous designated enemies.

The late American Senator William J. Fulbright wrote a book during the Vietnam War titled : " The Arrogance of Power." And what could have been more arrogant-and criminal- than the United States dropping two atomic bombs on Japanese cities during World War II ? The horror and the inhumanity are still appalling. But it was SOBER Harry Truman who made THAT decision. How could American racism not have been a factor in deciding the fate of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ?

As a pacifist I would love to see the whole occupied world shout: "GO HOME U.S. MILITARY!"

My own common- citizen- apology to the newly installed Okinawa governor Takeshi Onaga. For the whole catastrophe of U.S. Japan relations.
  

(COMMENT response to article published in Ryukyu  Shimpo, Japan, by Hirotoshi Kimura, Dec. !2, 2014 ... "Hit -and-Run by U.S. Service Member: We Should Reform the Status of Forces Agreement Now")