It's totally unbelievable that after 60 years of that war we still have...
Do the math on how much WE (the taxpayers) are paying for this utter folly....
28,500 troops (per Dept of State) x $110,000/yr per head (per CBO)
Take most or all of the US troops off the 38th parallel and you can imagine anything made by Samsung or LG not making it to the US.
To put that in perspective, the National Debt has continued to increase an average of $3.94 billion per day since September 28, 2007!
The federal government borrows $4 billion every day. We make $73.9 million a day in interest payments to China. That works to be about $27 billion a year.
Forget about Korea. There is an argument to be made that the troops there have served as a deterent to the madment in Pongyang.
But how about all the thousands of troops and stored equipment in Germany? Does anyone really expect the Russians to come storming through the Fulda Gap since 1990?
Time to close those bases for sure. They are an anachronon of WWII and the Cold War.
“Do the math on how much WE (the taxpayers) are paying for this utter folly....28,500 troops (per Dept of State) x $110,000/yr per head (per CBO). Over 3 BILLION $$$ per year!”
The Korean War wasn’t exactly a free ride. I suspect that Korean War 2 won’t be all that cheap either. I prefer to spend a few billion a year (if that’s even true) to having to sacrifice another 40,000 (or more) Americans.
And yes, we will (again) get drawn in. We are NOT going to let Japan fall, and that WILL be the result of putting our heads in the sand. Japan is simply too big (economically) to become our enemy (after they’re taken over).