Bring our troops home.
PattyO is a special kind of stupid isn’t he. It isn’t about being ‘friends’, it is about the much greater implication on us if a regional war breaks out there. It is cheaper and easier on us to remain that firewall.
The incompetence and mystifying policies of the Clinton administration and the bizarre meddling of Jimmy Carter in 1994 has resulted in a nuclear North Korea. It really is time to leave and let wealthy South Korea and China, who strong vested interests deal with it.
Just how many ENEMIES does Pat want us to have?
We already fed him Egypt, Libya, Iraq, and other nations in that area. Does he want a UNIFIED Korea staring us down? How about Japan, would he prefer them aligned with China (and yes, Japan pays the bill for our troops, SK might, not sure)? How about our hemisphere?
What’s his end-game here? Total isolation of the US, I guess...and then, without friends, we are crushed like an ant. Nice vision, Pat.
Pat, your new world order is showing.
Yet again, we are seeing the repercussion of not taking the advice of our founders to heart—staying out of foreign entanglements. Though the circumstances of our current status of alliances can be well understood. The catastrophic results of the treaty of Versailles after WWI, was a good indication that someone had to manage events of post WWII. And that someone was the U.S., as we were the only remaining nation that was not devastated by that war. The total makeup of the world would be starkly different today had not the U.S. stood against the onslaught of Communism.
As for the U.S. still being in S. Korea, some old grizzled vets that I knew, firmly believed that the goal is not to keep the north from invading the south but the south from invading the north.
The unfortunate part about our current position in the world, is that it will be virtually impossible to backtrack and leave many of those nations to the fickle vagaries, of populations no longer interested in defending themselves. Its the consequences that our national parks have long understood when visitors are told to not feed the bears.
Bring those troops home and fortify our own DMZ to the south. Let Korea spend their own money.
All Korea has to do is give their nuke to Iran who has permission to fire it from Venezuela.
And I think it’s March 15th that our southern air defense becomes non-existent. Anybody who wants can launch something into the airspace on our southern border and we won’t even necessarily know until it goes off. Not that we’d actually try to intercept something if it was headed there anyway - the lame-duck democrats were still able to get our soon-to-be-Republican House to agree to give up on developing our missile defense system in December of 2010...
When are people going to realize just how dangerous this foreign enemy combatant occupying our White House really is? Our enemies have all the capability they need, to bring this country down in a big, big way.
Buchanan is correct though about one thing: North Korea's progress in developing and proliferating nuclear weapons and ballistic missile technology logically suggests that Japan and Taiwan should develop an inventory of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles to deter China. The Obama administration bobbled the ball because they should have been repeatedly telling that to China and demanding that they block North Korea and replace the Kim regime. Now, the US must deliver that same message to China with all the persuasive force that can be brought to bear.
Frigging idiot isolationist Buccanan.
Bring our troops home.
Cause we said we would....
Nuff said
I beleive korea is still a UN mission.
Why is the US carrying the load ?
If we remove 28k troops, does S.korea economy go down the tubes ?
Do we care ?
Because that’s what the Elders of Zion want? /sarcasm
They have no SHIPS?
UHhh...
To be close to CHINA?
I sleep better at night knowing Kim will never be able to hit the East Coast with an ICBM...