"Great is Thy Faith"
It is now crystal-clear that Mrs. Clinton will be in charge of the American diplomacy in the coming Obama Administration.
She has performed something that is in itself moving, since it is as if she were trying to be the ever-First Lady in the United States.
So, let me use some blank maps to check the world while most of the Japanese are too humble to deliver a presentation to discuss the global value system with anybody like the U.S. Secretary of State.
SECTION I: OUR WORLD EAST OF THE EUPHRATES
(Click to enlarge.)Tentatively, I like to call the regions from the Euphrates river to Japan generically “Our World.”
Essentially it does not include Israel, but it can include Turkey.
This “Our World” mainly consists of four regions: the (Israel-) Islam-India War Zone, the India-Pacific Hot Spots; the Sino-Peripherals Warning Area; and Japan & Democratic East Asia.
Due to huge aid, support, and influences of Japan, the India-Pacific Hot Spots and the Sino-Peripherals Warning Area, in addition to Democratic East Asia, have developed well economically and politically in these decades.
But, with military operations by Israel, the U.S., and even NATO countries, the Israel- Islam-India War Zone has been so dangerous actually and potentially in these years and decades.
Yet, this Zone must be the focus for mankind to secure its peace and prosperity in the 21st century, since it is characterized by the existence of the nation Israel, the location of Mecca, the world-largest crude oil reserves, and ever-ongoing wars, civil wars, and terror between different religious, racial, and political forces and camps.
SECTION II: Religious Division of the World
(Click to enlarge.)The Christendom surrounds the above “Our World” and North Africa.
However, please note that some part of the U.S., for example around New York, can be regarded as part of the Judaist domain.
The state of China is officially based on certain European philosophy. However, ordinary people and especially farmers seem to perform a kind of Taoism. Yet, there is underlying respect for Buddhism, so that China is here included in the Asian-Continental Buddhist world as with Tibet and Mongolia.
Money has universal power over any person of any religion. Modern industries can apply to any religious world. Economic globalization looks like never minding any religion.
However, you cannot declare that the U.S. dollar never admits any religion. You cannot declare that the U.S. Government, the sole issuer of the U.S. dollar bills, never respects any religion, since the U.S. dollar itself is a religion.
If so, religion is above the U.S. dollar. And, anything above the U.S. dollar in a no-nonsense value system must be fairly respected.
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That is all for today, since it is almost 6 p.m. of Thursday around Tokyo.
(When I was young, I happened to see a movie of Napoleon and Waterloo at a movie theater. I was highly moved for some reasons. But, WWII veterans might not like any such war movie.
http://www.geocities.com/RodeoDrive/1555/waterloo.mid
Source: http://www.geocities.com/RodeoDrive/1555/mainmidi.html)
Mat 15:24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Mat 15:25 Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.
Mat 15:26 But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.
Mat 15:27 And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
Mat 15:28 Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.