Posted on 11/17/2006 7:13:02 PM PST by Lunatic Fringe
Pull em out and redeploy them to Iraq. To hell with helping countries that dont want to help themselves. We have bigger fish to fry.
It is not strategically wise to be dependent on any foreign country in an unstable region of the world for any vital commodity although sometimes you have no choice.
We cannot realistically change the fact that the Persian Gulf happens to contain 70% of the World's known oil reserves but we can certainly do something about the fact that we are not producing our own computer chips.
Why are they not concerned? Why are our troops there? How can the president keep our troops and policy at a location where the host nation doesn't recognize the danger? At this point, who cares?
Because they have the protective umbrella of the American Armed Services. To keep the Godless NOKO horde from over-running a vital free-market economy in the East. It is easier to do nothing than something. I, as sure as $hit, don't care.
Big time. Pull out.
I served a tour in Korea many, many, yrs. ago. It was an appreciative country at the time. But, like the USA it is being taken over by the far left radicals and, I agree with many of the post here, it's time to pull our troops out.
Other than helping protect Japan and a few other insignificant islands, they no longer need us. There economy is full speed ahead, they can now afford to protect themselves.
I would also include Japan into this categorie, they are a rich nation and have the means of protecting themselves.
To think the money as a nation we would save by freeing ourselves from these syphoning countries.
"any reason as to why ?"
- The only reason that I can fathom is that South Korea is playing a waiting game, trying to appear neutral, in the hopes that when the North Korean regime collapses (sooner rather than later, they hope) they will have maintained a closer relationship with the North and thereby be in a position to negotiate reunification.
Or, as Winston Churchill once said, their policy may be simply to feed the tiger in the hopes that it will eat them last.
.........To hell with South Korea. Let them fight their own battles...............
And let them keep their steel, and their ship-building, and their autos, and electronics. Cut off trade with the ungrateful bastards!
Let S. Korea fend for themselves!
Any sense of what the popular sentiment is since the NK test?
Well, South Koreans are just a few miles from a madman dictator. They are concerned about keeping peace with Kim, to avoid war. And they probably figure, rightly, that they cannot count on the United States or any other nation to come to their defense. The South Vietnamese could not count on the U.S., ultimately, and now the Iraqis can't either. The more voters elect cut and run Democrats, the weaker the U.S. gets in the eyes of other nations.
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SK is terrified of NK, wussies.
Additionally, Japan is a STRATEGIC ally and STRATEGIC target of all who are hostile to the US. We are there because of Russia and China...mostly China.
Korea is a different story. The ONLY reason we are there is because of a dusty old treaty.
We should inform the SKoreans that we'll begin a phased withdraw of ALL assets there starting the first day after their next general election. While we'll continue to honor our treaty obligations, we'll do so only with strategic assets we have in theatre. We should also let them know we are not opposed to renegotiating the existing treaty.
Shake 'em up, see what happens.
"dependent on South Korea for things like computer memory chips."
start buying chips down in mexico. keeps illegals home.
"To think the money as a nation we would save by freeing ourselves from these syphoning countries."
Exactly. Wase of money, waste of a lot of political rhetoric about "valued partner", and just start treating them like any other trade nation. Once we start redeploying out of there, Kim will launch an attack to get their resources. And then SK will be standing in the storm with their hat out.
Land grabber!
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