South Korean environmentalists chant anti-U.S. slogans near the U.S. embassy in Seoul, April 2, 2001. Their demands: that the Bush administration support the 1997 Kyoto Agreement on greenhouse gas reductions. Yun Suk-bong
Anti-Americanism is growing in South Korea after two U.S. soldiers charged with negligent homicide in the road deaths of two Korean teenage schoolgirls were acquitted by U.S. military courts last month
South Korean protesters shout a slogan during a rally opposing the inauguration of U.S. President George W. Bush near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul Thursday, Jan. 20, 2005. Protesters demanded the withdrawal of the U.S and South Korean troops in Iraq. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon).demand, huh?
What a spoiled rotten bunch the South Koreans are! We've protected these bums long enough. There is no way anyone can protect Seoul from missile attack when it is 25 miles from the NK border. They are extremely fortunate that we have had thousands of US troops there for 50 years (another Democrat war with no exit strategy), and if they keep "demanding" stuff, we should pull our military out and let those loud mouths fend for themselves. Their worthless, long-haired "youth" are always wanting to be re-unified with the North, and one of these fine years, we should let them.
I know those "America go home" signs and "Evil Bush" placards have just filled me with a warm and fuzzy desire to protect them from the monster under the bed.
We should heavily arm Japan then tell the Koreans (north and south) to go F#@! off.
(Maybe I'd better go get another cup of coffee.)
Yea yea, same old story - "demand" our help when it fits into their picture, but otherwise play the anti-American card in their national politics. The adage "The more things change the more they are the same" does appear to apply, doesn't it?
But in S. Korea's defense, generally speaking, they do carry their weight and are consistent. South Korea has troops in Iraq, they fought along our side in Vietnam and took substantial losses there. You will always find one or two protesters that are against this or that and the antagonist who like with the crushing of the S. Korean girl years ago from a M88 (An horrible accident) will exploit the situation to bolster their political position. Cheap politics can be found everywhere, even in the US.
Time for South Korea to stop its appeasement policy towards the North and if it refuses then pull our troops out.
Are there still import duties of up to %400 for American products entering the South?
Let's see that means if you are a South Korean and want say a Harley Davidson that here costs $25,000, There you'd have to pay $100,000. Gee that seems fair.
Protect their asses and get shaken down.
The old Nike Hercules would be the perfect weapon to put in there. The range is about right and with a ground to ground plug it could hit the Chia Pet almost anywhere he needed hitting. We must have a few old ones left lying around somewhere.
Most of all, I think we should give short range missiles with nuclear warheads to Taiwan. Such an offer to Taiwan might encourage China to exert more pressure on NK.
This is why it is wise for Bush to let NK's neighbors take some responsibility.
They would like nothing better than to let the US come in, then they sit back, do nothing, but criticize and cheap shot America.
The nuclear shield won't help Seoul which can be reduced to rubble in a matter of hours by all of NK's artillery positions currently honed in on it.
Oh I get it... because Rumsfeld "thumped the table" over South Korea getting nukes, it is all our fault.
Guess we'll look at Fprd trucks instead of Hyundais...
Isn't this what always precedes flag burning because of our militant foreign policy?
Oh reary?
Offer to sell 'em Patriots.
And pack up our armed forces in Korea and move 'em home.
Not a chance! Demanding a defense shield is bold enough, but to ask for when/where/how the US will use nuclear weapons is beyond bold in my opinion. No future US President is going to want to be bound by what happens in 2006 with respect to using nukes.
But they want a nuclear umbershoot from the United States.