I can understand why U.S. Rep. Mel Watt might sign on as a cosponsor of a U.S. House resolution urging Japan to apologize to South Korea for forcing Korean women to act as “comfort women” for Japanese soldiers during World War II. This has all the things Democrats like Watt love: admission of blame by a hegemonic power, a PC men-oppressing-women element, and a come-uppance by a society that has historically acted in a racist manner to people in another country.
But why would U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick, R-NC, sign on as a sponsor to a measure that presumes to tell another free and democratic nation what it should do vis a vis another free and democratic country, on an issue with which the United States has no connection? Watt and Myrick, both from Charlotte, are the only North Carolina members of Congress to have signed on to the resolution.
