THE POTUS BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA VERSUS THE GERMAN CHANCELLOR ANGELA MERKEL IN REGARDS TO THE COMFORT WOMEN ISSUE WITH JAPAN–THE POTUS TIP TOES AROUND THE ISSUE WHILST THE CHANCELLOR GETS TO THE POINT OF RESOLVING THE 70 YEAR OLD ORDEAL OF THE WOMEN POPULACE OF ASIA TAKEN INTO SERVICE AS SEX SLAVES FOR THE EMPIRE SOLDIERS–FROM KOREA, CHINA, UK, AND AUSTRALIA–AS HER TONE WITH JAPANS ABE TO RESOLVE WITH CONFIDENCE AND RECONCILE WITH AN APOLOGY HITS THE POINT HOME

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has arguably elevated herself to the level of a truly great world leader.
The first East German-born head of a unified Germany has done a lot throughout her career.

On the European front, she has led the delicate work of coordinating the many conflicting interests of her country, Europe's biggest creditor, and debtor countries such as Greece in order to save the euro, the key foundation of the European Union.
On the global stage, she has shown courage and finesse to call a spade a spade, almost an impossible task for any leader nowadays.

During her recent visit to Japan, she told her host Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to stop whitewashing his country's wartime misdeeds and face history as it took place.
Abe was pictured with his left hand covering his face in an apparent attempt to dismiss the awkward moment during their joint conference.

Merkel spoke clearly that Japan should resolve the issue of comfort women, who were forced to serve at Japan's Imperial Army brothels.
Her direct way of speaking to the Japanese conscience looks stark in comparison with the tepid way U.S. President Barack Obama addressed the same issue during his tour of Japan and Korea last year.

Obama, who still looks way short of what a Nobel Peace Prize winner should aspire to be, skipped any reference to comfort women while visiting Japan. Only when he came to Korea, the next stop, he said that sex slavery was a "shocking" violation of human rights. But this was one day too late.

Even when on topic, he didn't call on Japan to repent and take action accordingly.
But the German Chancellor was different in telling Japan to make the first moves to reconcile with its neighbors and sincerely seek their forgiveness, which she said is the only path to reconciliation.

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