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2005-06-09 China-Japan-Koreas

DOD visit to Seoul: we may pull U.S. troops if there is no agreement on various issues

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Posted by too true 2005-06-09 18:15|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Might?? Just do it. The SKors have been assisted long enough; it's time for them to sink or swim on their own.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-06-09 20:30|| 2005-06-09 20:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Roh has previously expressed concern that plans for U.S. troops here to be a more flexible force might unwillingly embroil South Korea in regional conflicts.

Which means what, exactly?

Posted by trailing wife 2005-06-09 21:46|| 2005-06-09 21:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Means two things.

1. SK expects the US to help them if they are attacked.

2. SK does not plan on helping the US in any other conflict. Like NK vs Japan, China vs Japan/Taiwan/US.

Posted by Laurence of the Rats">Laurence of the Rats 2005-06-09 22:45|| http://www.punictreachery.com]">[http://www.punictreachery.com] 2005-06-09 22:45|| Front Page Top

#4 South Korea - the France of E. Asia.....

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-06-09 22:49|| 2005-06-09 22:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Much of this appeasement and feelings of racial solidarity with NK is generational. SK has had 50 years of of uneasy peace. Those that have memories of life on either side of the 38th parallel and the war are now over 60 years old. Like the war generation in western Europe, they are dying off. In it's place are a generation in power who have only known peace enforced by American power. They see American tanks rolling through the streets and soldiers in their bars. They don't see the life on the other side of the DMZ/iron curtain and their educational/media/cultural institutions feed their prejudices.

Bottom line. Welcome them back to reality. Americans have no obligation to continue to provide for their comfort and feelings of racial superiority. Their freedom and safety is their responsibility. Withdraw and reevaluate trade relations. Trade with out allies, ignore neutrals and boycott enemies. The Soviet Union would be alive, well, prosperous and even more threatening if our leaders had followed the crazy trading non-strategy we have today.

Posted by ed 2005-06-10 00:15|| 2005-06-10 00:15|| Front Page Top

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