Riot over US base expansion

Herald Sun ^ | 4 May 2006

[Aussie Dasher]

No prizes for guessing who was behind this!

[metmom]

I guess the older generation is dying off.

[John Valentine]

Yep, and the younger generation has been permanently infantalized, just like our own.

[NZerFromHK]

Be careful what you are typing here. Next time you go to South Korea you will receive "special" treatments LOL!

It is long past time to reduce US forces in South Korea by 3/4, and relocate them to Japan near Fukuoka which is nearest to South Korea LOL.

[Roy Tucker]

I favor pulling all US troops out of South Korea. They are a bunch of ingrates. It no longer provides the South Korean government with a 32,000 "hostage factor" insurance policy that the US will support them if North Korea invades. It also would allow us more flexibility in dealing with North Korea which makes the North Koreans nervous because they would like nothing better than to rain missiles down on our troops in South Korea should we bomb them in the North.

[Zeppelin]

Yep, and the younger generation has been permanently infantalized, just like our own.

This 20-year-old thinks that's a dangerously pessimistic generalization. =P

[speed_addiction]

Camp Humphries, home of the 8th Army Military Disciplinary Facility. I was a "guest" there for a month after a few of us from Camp Greaves got too boistrous at the King Club in Itaewon one weekend.

The Commander there was pretty fair. The MPs ate at the same mess hall we did and they were not allowed to eat before us. I remember that on Friday, lunch was always a Steak and Lobster Tail, baked potato and strawberry shortcake. When our time was up and we got sent back to our unit we almost cried.


What We Are About To Do Here Is What The Good Lord Would Call A Cleansing of the Wicked. I Call It A Good Old Fashioned Texas Ass Kicking.

[noblejones]

We'll just have to start calling you ExceptionZeppelin.

[claudiustg]

The Koreans are pretty cool for the most part and it gives us a nice toehold on mainland Asia.

[Zeppelin]

haha, i can handle that...

[John Valentine]

Fortunately, there are always a few to carry the torch, and I count my own sons among them. But, I think the generalization (and I recognize that's what it is) stands.

[Zeppelin]

I came across a great quote today. It read something like...

"The real world: a liberal's nightmare. So they hide out on college campuses."

ha!

[Roy Tucker]

Right now, I would say the strategic advantage of having them out of South Korea outweighs the advantage of the toehold. We can put them in Japan who are somewhat more accommodating.

[Herakles]

Time to leave. The youth of Korea can pay for their defense with their own blood and treasure!

[LeoWindhorse]

we should pull out that damn peninsula , let them deal with their lovely little Kim Jong ill themselves.
Would that surprise the hell out of them ? Yelling Yankee go Home , and we do.....sayonara

[MissAmericanPie]

Obviously the S. Korean youth are anxious to starve to death like their N. Korean counter parts. All they have to do to fulfill their dream is move North.

[paudio]

Under a mutual defence treaty, some 32,000 American troops have been stationed in South Korea against North Korea's 1.1-million-strong army on the Korean peninsula since the 1950-1953 Korean War.

Wasn't the US in Korea under the 'mandate' of the United Nations? Just return the mandate...

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

sayonara's Japanese

[ARCADIA]

I though we had decided to withdraw the troops and surrender South Korea to the Chinese/NK communist? Why are bothering with troops pullouts in Iraq when we have yet to disengage from a fight that took place more then half a century ago. Pull these troops and let them patrol our Southern border instead of Korea's border; we are the ones that are being invaded.

[LeoWindhorse]

exactly...we depart to Japan