Time for the Sun to Rise

N AT I O N A L R E V I E W/J U LY 4, 2005

PACIFISM has never been so silly. In an East Asia featuring both one of the world’s most irrational states and a rising dictator- ial power bent on changing the region’s strategic balance, it is a cru- cial ally of the United States that labors under a constitution that could have been written by Quakers. Of course,