Posted on 03/06/2006 8:24:12 PM PST by gogoman
Time to move out some troops!
What you have is leftist madness and communist propaganda coming to the fore. Only idiots believe the US made North Korea develop nukes, the US posing absolutely zero offensive threat against the North. Then you have South Koreans so greedy they don't want their northern brethren freed, because of the reconstruction bill they would be left with. Pathetic but the left will destroy any society. Once the USA is gone, what do you think will happen to South Korea?
If I recall correctly the last time we became "involved" in a military conflict with China it was over...now, let's see, what country was it our troops died to defend from 1951-53? The name will come to me...
I agree. Lets pull out our troops and see how long S. Korea can defend itself from a communist invasion.
Yeah, current administration in South Korea, Roh, is a prominent leftist.
It's about time, we have 37,000 stationed there.
Is there any good reason why the US keep its military in South Korea? Why doesn't the US go to the UN (which, I believe, where it got its mandate to be in South Korea) and tell them, that's it. Why don't you guys find another way to solve this half century war. We don't want to be there alone anymore.
The problem is that most of the ones who remember the korean war are now much older.
The new generation is filled with spoiled socialist college kids and appeasing liberals who would do anything for false promises by NK about how they will one day be together again. They have no concept that south korea would look like north korea if not for the US. Many colleges hold rallies all the time spouting that US soliders are all rapists and commit worse crimes that NK.
I do understand many south koreans emmotional attachment to north korea. They still have relatives they can't see up there and there are sites very sacred to them there as well.
But China created this mess. The North Koreans continue to be brainwashed. And instead of them pissed off at the US for helping protect them, the south koreans should be directing that anger at China.
The fact that when North Koreans escape across the border into china and beg them to let them get to south Korea, the chinese send them back into NOrth Korea to be killed is a horrible crime.
When I was in the Army I was stationed with a bunch of guys who did tours in South Korea. The general consensus among them was that if anything were to ever happen, that their presence over there would be little more than to act as speed bumps.
LOL. Does Hangul ping work?
If there then isn't one, S. Korea will only have the US to thank for the US's previous efforts.
They are likely to be the first to see North Korean military action. Didn't the US move some of its troops further south of the DMZ though?
Moving further south of the DMZ in South Korea is just about the same as moving from NYC to Philadelphia; it's not very far, because there is only so far you can go before you hit water.
37,000 US troops vs. 1 million North Koreans is a mismatch and recipe for disaster. I don't care if the NK army is starving or not.
How much troops do the South Koreans have? I remember a South Korean friend of mine was required to do a couple years of military service in S Korea after college. In the event of war, US troops there should provide tactics, not become war fodder.
You're just taking US troops into account. If you add the SK troops, we're talking what--37,025, 37,026 total troops?
;^)
It certainly isn't close to a million. Regardless, if I was stationed there I sure as hell wouldn't want to gamble my life against a million-strong, starving, brainwashed, invading army on the abilities of a much smaller and untested SK army. We should either finish the job and liberate the North or get out of there all together. IMHO, to do otherwise would be just waiting for a massacre.
The South Koreans need to look at the economic consequences of the BEST case, which is unification. Just look at German unification. West Germany spent thirty years building a treasury, only to see much of it sunk into the economic slum of East Germany.
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