Posted on 07/12/2011 6:56:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
No good deed goes unpunished.
;)
South Korea will eventually be in the Chinese sphere of influence once they make a deal on what to do about the North.
Thoughts?
Yeah North Korea and China would be only too happy to absorb the economic plum that is South Korea.
Well they may well learn the lesson of the Vietnamese.
The South Vietnamese, after the war, called the Russians “Americans without money”.
South Korea ran something like a 300% duty on US cars until they got their auto industry running. Ungrateful merchantilists like the rest of Asia.
50+ years later and we are still there protecting them? I think during 50 years they could build their own military and stop relying on welfare from the US. We need to bring our troops home and stop spending that money.
Japan can make sure they stay on their God forsaken penninsula.
What an excellent (and yet alarming) column. Thank you for posting it.
I have to admit that I had no idea how badly many South Koreans think of our military.
Do they really think their military alone could stop a North Korean invasion? Do their think of our military as an “occupying force”? Do they have any idea just how bad things are in North Korea and do they understand that they’ll end up just like the millions of other North Koreans - starved and oppressed?
I think Prager’s idea is a great one. South Korea ought to hold a national plebiscite based on only one thing - do you want us to leave, Yes or No?
American troops and machines are defending the ROK.
And we’re borrowing the money from them to do it. Along with borrowed money from China, etc.
Madness.
That's the truth and there's no reason anymore for to spend the manpower and the money to maintain the DMZ. Let them defend it themselves. In these times of budget difficulty the left keeps demanding spending cuts from the DOD...that's a good place to start.
That's the truth and there's no reason anymore for to spend the manpower and the money to maintain the DMZ. Let them defend it themselves. In these times of budget difficulty the left keeps demanding spending cuts from the DOD...that's a good place to start.
We are in S.K. not for the Koreans but for the Japanesse. Defense of Japan starts in S.K.
I love Dennis Praeger but I can’t believe he wrote such an irresponsible article.
South Korea is now facing down the North with MORE resolve than the Obama administration favors.
In any war, South Korea will be ravaged. They are an incredibly important front against North Korea and Communist China.
It’s only natural that long periods of foreign troops on these nations’ territory leads to resentment. The Japanese want us out at least as badly, and they have been far less committed to their own defense. Has Praeger ever heard of how they hate us in Okinawa? Should we abandon japan?
A gross overreaction to a story about a movie title in South Korea.
According to defectors connected to the NK government:
In the 1990’s, the North determined that they could no longer defeat South Korea in a war. They simply don’t have the military infrastructure to pull it off. They can’t even perform large-scale exercises anymore. They also cannot trust their soldiers to get past the first grocery store.
And yes of course it’s sickening that South Korean and other nations’ leftists are as suicidal as our own. The left has always been the enemy of every nation it infests.
The ROK doesn’t need US troops to defend itself. It has something like 20X the economy of the Norks. Their defense industry is a world leader. Their economy is in better shape than ours. They have plenty of healthy young men to serve in their military, far more than the north.
The American troops are there purely as a political “trip wire.”
If it happens it won’t be by military conquest. It’ll be a reverse of what happened in Germany. The younger generation there appears to be that clueless.
South Korea is profitable because they do not have to spend any money on defense. We provide it for them. In return, they dump their crappy Hyundais in our market and the sheep by them.
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