Noted with disgust: “U.S. panel OKs sex slave resolution”

Excerpted from article by various writers published 28 June 2007 at The Japan Times Online.

Concluding questions by NWI. Comments and insight are sought.

“The U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee overwhelmingly passed a resolution Tuesday demanding an apology from Japan over the sexual exploitation of women in the Asia-Pacific region by the military during the war.

“The nonbinding resolution was approved 39-2. It was submitted by Rep. Michael Honda, a California Democrat of Japanese descent, and some Republicans.

“It is time that the Japanese government approach and acknowledge, take full responsibility and apologize in an unambiguous, formal way,” he said.

“Now that the committee has voted in favor of the resolution, attention shifts to whether it will be put to a vote on the full House floor, with Honda sounding upbeat on its passage through the chamber soon.

“It is a resolution that seeks admission of a horrible truth in order that this horror may never be perpetrated again,” panel chairman Tom Lantos said.”

Questions:

1. Despite its Foreign Affairs titled committee, does the current Congress realize foreign relations lies with the White House?
2. Does the House of Representatives have nothing of equal or greater importance to apply themselves?
3. Does Congress realize that the internal matters of other sovereign entities is the private affairs of those distant countries?
4. When an entity from around the world invokes a demand for an apology upon the United States, will the current Congress comply?
5. Who has appointed Representative Honda and his Foreign Affairs Committee moral arbiters for the world?

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