イラクで日本人拘束

>それはね、反政府運動していなかったから。
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>それなら非難しないでしょ。
>もともと、拘束されなくても
>非難される側の人たちだったのさ。

それなら、結局、New York Timesなどの論評は正しかったことになりますね。

"For Japanese Hostages, Release Only Adds to Stress", By NORIMITSU ONISHI, Published: April 22, 2004.
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Beneath the surface of Japan's ultra-sophisticated cities lie the hierarchical ties that have governed this island nation for centuries and that, at moments of crises, invariably reassert themselves. The ex-hostages' transgression was to ignore a government advisory against traveling to Iraq. But their sin, in a vertical society that likes to think of itself as classless, was to defy what people call here "okami," or, literally, "what is higher."
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The foreign ministry, held both in awe and resentment by the average Japanese, was the "okami" defied in this case. While foreign ministry officials are Japan's super elite, the average Japanese tends to regard them as arrogant and unhelpful, recalling how they failed to deliver in time the declaration of war against the United States in 1941 so that Japan became forever known as a sneak-attack nation.
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>国のために働いて
>人のために働いて
>信念のために働いて

この部分は、今井さんは今井さんなりに、高遠さんは高遠さんなりに、郡山さんは郡山さんなりに、働いていると思います。