Why Are We Still in Korea?

Townhall.com ^ | November 26, 2010 | Pat Buchanan

[KevinDavis]

It is working real well.....

[dragnet2]

I was in Asia during 9/11. There was the official line, the mainstream media line, and there was the man on the street. The man on the street thought we got what we deserved. American conservatives better get this and get it quick: We Americans only have each other. Nobody is going to EVER bail us out. If Mexico invaded tomorrow, the world would unite behind Mexico

How is it possible people can't see this?

[dragnet2]

Cause we are still at war with North Korea.. We can hide our heads in the sand all we want.. Isolationism never worked..

Who's war? It was a U.N police action and the U.S. never declared war on NK.

You might be living in some 1950s dream world, where all these other countries once respected the U.S. and were our allies... Those days are LONG over, as most of the world looks at us with utter contempt.

Get yourself updated.

[Mr. Silverback]

Thanks for the info.

As for Korea, we never declared war with them. It was a UN police action that got us involved.

We would have gotten involved anyway. Domino theory and all that. It's just that back then the other members of the UN cared about things other than bashing Americans and Jews.

[KevinDavis]

No it is you who needs to live in the present.. Not the Isolationist 30’s period... Oh by the way I’m sure Congress also approved of the Korean Conflict.. We did stop the Reds in their tracks..

[radpolis]

Touche.

True.

“We would have gotten involved anyway. Domino theory and all that. It’s just that back then the other members of the UN cared about things other than bashing Americans and Jews.”

[dragnet2]

You go right ahead Kevin, and support another war...Mix it up with Communist China and their good friends the North Korean...Put all your support behind it Kevin...

Gung ho Kevin!!

[hosepipe]

The SouK people would have to perform sneak attack to save NorK and SouK lives.. and probably use theater nukes too.. maybe neutron nukes.. If they care of their own people(NorK) they would do this.. Would be bloody but any civil war would be..

China would hate this.. but first the Americans would have to completely GET OUT...

[wtc911]

We never were at war with NK.

We stay there because it is the only footprint we have left anywhere in continental Asia. I'm sure that you can see the value in that.

[wtc911]

The fact is that there are fewer than 300 US troops actually in or very near the DMZ, and they are members of the Battalion Scouts in the JSA.

The roks have carried that burden for years.

[wtc911]

Dont be shocked if the Chicoms try to retake Taiwan on Obamas watch

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Please provide a detailed scenario.

[Sola Veritas]

“Dont be shocked if the Chicoms try to retake Taiwan on Obamas watch”

If we are in a position of helping South Korea stop a major invasion attempt....I expect Red China to sit passively until we are fully engaged and then attack and take Taiwan while we are too busy to do anything to stop it.

[bert]

The United States is engaged in a police action with north Korea that is in a state of cease fire. It never officially ended. It is ongoing.

Foot print in Asia is not the reason. We are there as part of the UN mission in the ongoing police action mission. Negotiations are still in progress at Panmumjon

We have major troop and air deployments in Asia..... in Afghanistan

[Wuli]

When will Pat admit why he is ignored so much and so often - because he’s so often wrong.

[wtc911]

As I said, we were never at war> And sorry, but the UN is not in SK, the US is. and we are there to provide us a base from which to stage and project power and influence throughout the region.

It's just silly to think of Afghanistan, which we can barely keep supplied, in the same vein.

[supremedoctrine]

Yep, I was just thinking the same thing.
Doesn’t take long for Pat to get around to sounding all
his old themes, even when we do understand the obvious points he’s making. But just what exactly are N. Korea’s designs? To destroy S. Korea or (chuckle) ‘take it over’?
Does anyone think N Korea could do any more than it’s currently doing, just do it over and over until some combined force of S Korea and the USA have to respond?
And is the next development seen to be North Korea’s apocalyptic use of nuclear weapons on S Korea, and by extension, US?? Someone please clarify. Tell me if this is anything more than the new, young lunatic in charge just making his bones.....

[Last Dakotan]

No real ally of our would undervalue their currency to gain a trade advantage. Japan, Korean and Taiwan surely do.. , For the shame of all of them and our shame for accepting this.

[Borges]

I wonder what would have happened if the Kaiser had won WW1. No Nazis in Germany would be a good guess. Also possibly no Bolsheviks taking power in Russia?

[wideawake]

The situation in Russia developed prior to Germany's defeat - it was predicated on an assumption of German victory. I do not see how that would have changed. And a German victory would not have pacified the Freikorps. It would have split Germany into factions: those who supported the negotiated peace favored by the Kaiser and those who would have insisted on regrouping, rearming and crushing France for good. Both France and Germany had strong, popular and well-organized anti-Semitic and proto-fascist movements before WWI. I can't imagine that a tenuous peace negotiated by a technically victorious Germany would have pacified such factions on either side of the border.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Why do you think no aid would have reached Mexico?

The Mexican government itself didn't think that much German aid would make it to Mexico through the gauntlet of the Royal Navy.

I wasn't referring so much to religion as to ethnoculture. The Mexican government of the time didn't want to go to the trouble of assimilating by-now Anglo Texas.