Patronizing, overbearing and deeply insulting

JAPAN-U.S. SEMINAR

John Hamre, president and CEO of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington stated, "Americans cannot afford from a security standpoint to have Japan abandon nuclear power. It's too important to us."

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nb20121103d1.html

U.S. needs Japan to remain nuclear, expert says

"So for the last 40 years the U.S. and Japan, along with Europe, have been leaders in creating an international system to monitor and control the use of commercial nuclear energy so that we know if people were illegitimately going to divert it and turn it into weapons," he said.

If Japan is to give up nuclear energy — and if nuclear power is to wither in the U.S. due to competition with cheap natural gas and in Europe as in the case of Germany — "the countries that have given us the security system are going to diminish, and who's going to replace them?" he said. "Americans cannot afford from a security standpoint to have Japan abandon nuclear power. It's too important to us."

Hamre said the March 11, 2011, earthquake caused triple tragedies — the tsunami that resulted in the loss of thousands of lives, the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns and the loss of public confidence in the government. "Citizens right now do not believe the government can protect them and they don't have any confidence the government can provide safe nuclear power," he said.

Patronizing, overbearing and deeply insulting … IMHO