Why Are U.S. Troops Still In Korea?
Because there’s a war on and we’re signatories to the armistice??
To keep China and NK from running over SK.
because North Korea wants them out ,LOL
Because it’s easier to keep 30,000 of them there day to day than to have to ship 300,000 over in a hurry?
SK has had 60+ years to figure out how to defend their country. If they weren’t interested in doing it then tough luck.
Bring my tax money back home! Stop taxing me to defend a nation that can defend itself!
South Korea spends roughly THREE TIMES the North's entire GDP on defense.
South Korea has twice the population of North Korea.
South Korea has an economy roughly 40x larger than North Korea.
Yet American taxpayers have been duped to think we have to borrow money from overseas to protect South Korea from North Korea.
“Why Are U.S. Troops Still In Korea?”
Because it is MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE to fight a war there.
Because they are our ally
Because we NEED strategically placed staging areas
What’s Korea?
Korea was the Vietnam war before leftists took over America.
Without the presence of the USA’s forces, the SoKors will have to quit pretending that they are more than a screwdriver turn away from being a nuclear power.
Because someone has to call Japan to tell the Generals that the NORKS have come over the border.
And then it will give us an excuse to bomb them up to the stone age.
“One of the most important is because Washington insists on defending so many of its prosperous and populous allies around the world. They are the international version of Ronald Reagan’s famed “welfare queens.”
South Korea, in addition to is own military expenses ($36billion+) pays about 52% ($845 million) of U.S. costs in South Korea, gets no military aid from the U.S. beyond that, spends nearly 3/4 billion annually on U.S. military equipment for its forces, and has a smaller contingent of U.S. forces on its soil than either Japan or Germany, yet, in a strange juxtaposition of threat versus expenses, is far more threatened, militarily, than either Japan or Germany. Add to that the South Korea is paying about $10 billion of the $12 billion costs of moving Camp Humphreys south of the Han River (south of the river that borders the south side of Seoul).
Additionally, THOSE expenses dwarf the contributions to U.S. deficit spending in the bloated, wasteful, corrupt, “economic-redistributing” federal domestic programs.
if you have to ask, then you just don’t get it
Notably, Japan and South Korea both invest heavily in US Treasury bonds -- which means that both countries help finance our federal deficit. In effect, they help pay for US troops in South Korea by buying the US Treasury bonds that cover the present cost of our parents' Medicare and Social Security.
Unless Mr. Bandow is talking about removing all the troops in Korea and discharging them then the cost of having them there is not a whole lot more or a whole lot less than having them here in the states.