excommunicateとは
主な意味
破門する
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話題のワシントンポストのトランプ訪日総括記事。要約すると「AbeはTrumpの犬」なんだが、いやこれは犬に失礼か。
President Trump spoke to the press after arriving in Japan and meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Nov. 5. (The Washington Post)
By David Nakamura November 6
President Trump was reciting the sort of rote praise that leaders of allied nations heap on one another when he suddenly cut himself off during a joint news conference Monday with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
“The Japanese people are thriving, your cities are vibrant, and you’ve built one of the world’s most powerful economies,” Trump said, before looking up from his prepared remarks. Turning his head to face Abe next to him, Trump ad-libbed: “I don’t know if it’s as good as ours. I think not, okay?” He emphasized the “okay” by drawing it out leadingly as a parent might with a child.
“And we’re going to try to keep it that way,” Trump added, for good measure. “But you’ll be second.”
Abe, listening to an interpreter through an earpiece, smiled and remained silent. But his face betrayed a touch of uncertainty as the U.S. leader returned to his script. After the Japanese government had rolled out the red carpet for Trump and his family for two days, the patron was being patronized. It is becoming a familiar theme for Abe.
President Trump toasts at a welcome dinner hosted by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo on Monday. (Pool photo by Shizuo Kambayashi/Reuters)
But as Abe has lavished attention on Trump, their relationship has retained a subtext in which the U.S. president insists on asserting his dominance in a passive-aggressive manner. It started with Trump’s emasculating 19-second handshake with Abe in their Oval Office meeting in February, after which Abe appeared to grimace as though his fingers had been crushed.
Trump has let up on the power grip since then, but in more subtle ways he has continued to show who is the alpha — a price Abe appears willing to pay in his strategic servitude to keep Trump supporting the postwar security alliance that the president had openly questioned in his election campaign.
Before their round of golf Sunday, when Trump and Abe signed white hats emblazoned with the slogan, “Donald & Shinzo, Make Alliance Even Greater” in gold lettering, Trump wrote his name in the center of the brim, in large lines, which meant that Abe had to curve his signature off to the side.
Ivanka Trump visited Tokyo last week to speak at a conference on women in the workforce, prompting Abe to tell the president Monday that the Japanese have a “fever” for Ivanka — even though the conference hall was half-empty for her speech.
“Japan consistently supports the position of President Trump when he says that all options are on the table,” Abe said of the U.S. strategy on North Korea. “I once again strongly reaffirmed that Japan and the U.S. are 100 percent together.”
At the same time, Trump’s embrace has forced Abe into the role of a sidekick. Photos taken by Mar-a-Lago guests of Trump and Abe — in the middle of the restaurant, coordinating their response to a North Korean missile test moments after the news broke — made it seem as though the Japanese prime minister was being dragged into an uncomfortable new reality.
At the news conference Monday, a reporter asked Abe about his message to Trump regarding largely pacifist Japan’s role in its self-defense, amid reports that Trump was disappointed that the Japanese Self-Defense Forces did not shoot down a North Korean test missile. Before Abe could answer, Trump pulled rank and cut in.
“If I could just take a piece of the prime minister’s answer, he will shoot them out of the sky when he completes the purchase of lots of additional military equipment from the United States,” Trump declared.
As one former Asia policy aide in the Obama administration put it last week, Abe could wake up one day and find himself “excommunicated by a tweet.”
He regaled the audience of high-level diplomats and senior advisers with a story about how Abe was so desperate to visit him at Trump Tower after the election that the Japanese leader would not take no for an answer — though Trump’s aides worried that such a visit would be “inappropriate,” given that Barack Obama was still president.
Finally, Trump said, he called Abe to tell him no, but the prime minister was already flying to see him.
“I said: ‘You know what? There’s no way he’s going to land and I’m not seeing him,’ ” Trump said. “So I saw him, and it worked out just fine.”
ポチやっているのは、別に安倍ちゃんに始まった話ではないーーそれはそれでいい。
特に日本の誇りを大切にする右翼でさえも納得しているわけで、日本の国益につながれば、それはありがたい話。
昭和天皇も「耐え難きを耐え、忍びがたきを忍び」、と言っておられたではないか。
ゴルフ場でコケたり、ポチに徹する安倍ちゃんの姿は誇らしいとはいえないが、「ああ、あんなにまでして、日本のために、道化を演じてくれているんだ」と泣かせるものもある。家族のためを思って、横柄な取引先、傲慢な上司に耐えるサラリーマンお父さんの姿さえ彷彿とさせるものがある。
ただし、トランプ氏は言うことがコロコロ変わるし、
Abe could wake up one day and find himself “excommunicated by a tweet.”
安倍ちゃんが、朝起きたら、トランプ氏に、ツイッターで、捨てられてた、なんてことになる日が来ないとも限らない。
１）選択肢はちゃんともっておくこと
２）国民のため、また、国益にならないとわかったから、こっちから捨てる勇気を持つことが大事だ
安倍ちゃんにそれができるか、どうか。
