What the h*ll did you do with our fuel?
Posted by Matt Dioguardi on September 30th, 2007
And on and on it goes, here is something I hadn’t considered yesterday when I talked about the meaning of refuel …
… some within the government doubt whether each country would be willing to share adequate data on which vessels received fuel from the MSDF.
In addition, one senior ministry official said, “There’s no way of looking into this issue properly if countries such as the United States don’t give us any information on the ground that it’s classified.”
Another government source agreed, saying, “It’s highly likely other countries won’t be willing to disclose fuel consumption and navigation routes as these are regarded as military secrets.”
Again, signs of how convoluted this problem is. Japan is now going to go to each country that received fuel and ask, “ah, excuse me, but you could you tell me what exactly you did with each ship that received fuel from us. Are you absolutely sure the ship didn’t do anything other than help in the Afghan operation?”
There seems to be something absolutely embarrassing about this.