I would recommend we start to redeploy out of South Korea. If this president or his party are reelected, we should be gone permanently.
South Korea can make its best deal with the North and with China, and they'll have to live with it. We've generally stood by countries that wanted to be free. But if, in their minds, we're the problem, then they are ready to leave the nest. Its time for us to back away and let them.
"I would recommend we start to redeploy out of South Korea. If this president or his party are reelected, we should be gone permanently.
South Korea can make its best deal with the North and with China, and they'll have to live with it. We've generally stood by countries that wanted to be free. But if, in their minds, we're the problem, then they are ready to leave the nest. Its time for us to back away and let them."
I agree. After we pull out of Korea announce to the world that Japan will be handling defense responsibilities in the region...then watch the Koreans react..heh heh.
That is right.
the n korea/s.korea thing is what happens when you negotiate a 'truce' instead of finishing the war.
one side ALWAYS has to win decisively to end a conflict.
We did not win the Iraq war decisively.
Though we could have and should have and virtually have.
But since our object was the terrorist sadaam, and not the nation that sponsored him, the defeat of Iraq, is not unlike an ongoing civil war, with us being the police action.
S. Korea may have a democracy, but wWe lost the korean police action, because the issues of winner (the usa) and loser (The red chinese backed n. koreans) were never resolved completely.
Police actions are ALL losers. It's time to leave n. korea, they dont want us. We need to disentangle our troops from foreign wars where we are not wanted. and focus on the nations who want us, and want to resist communist china.
FWIW, Iraq signed a defense pact with Iran two days ago.
Apparently, our defeat of Sadaam, was not decisive enough to change their way of thinking.
For Iran is, our declared enemy.
"I would recommend we start to redeploy out of South Korea. If this president or his party are reelected, we should be gone permanently.
South Korea can make its best deal with the North and with China, and they'll have to live with it. We've generally stood by countries that wanted to be free. But if, in their minds, we're the problem, then they are ready to leave the nest. Its time for us to back away and let them."
Well put. Our guys on the ground are nothing but a speed bump anyways if the North attacks. We can launch very big bombs and missles from 200 miles away as a deterrent now.