TOKYO: Japan vowed yesterday to make no hasty decisions about its troops in Iraq after explosions near their camp but renewed violence in the country kept Tokyo and Washington's other allies in Asia on edge as some US senators and others raised the spectre of “another Vietnam.”
US and allied troops have faced a dramatic surge of violence by Sunni and Shi'ite militants this week and the fresh bloodshed is likely to dominate talks during a trip to Asia by US vice-president Dick Cheney beginning tomorrow.
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