Japan's Minister of Justice! Kunio Hatoyama confessed that his friend's friend is a member of al-Qaeda.
What he wanted to point out was 'probably' that terrorists hide themselves beside us as he clarified today in his constituency, so be careful. But believe me...it's too difficult to interpret so. Just too many people interpreted that he -Minister of Justice Kunio Hatoyama himself is a friend of terrorist group.
Theoretically speaking, neither enemy's enemy nor friend's friend means anything. He was not wrong. Just he should have needed to make allowances for the gap between his intelligent level and that of the general public.
He should have rightly confessed that his enemy's friend is a member of al-Qaeda since many people tend to get an impression that friend's friend must be a friend.
Yes - he certainly should.
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Just because he knows someone that knows an enemy , doesn't mean he is an enemy .We all know someone that isn't thinking in our same way . Don't mean we agree with them .
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