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2005-03-08 China-Japan-Koreas

Roh Says No to Greater USFK Role in Northeast Asia

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Posted by tipper 2005-03-08 9:47:27 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Smells like Turkey... without the trimmings.

Posted by .com 2005-03-08 10:09:21 AM|| 2005-03-08 10:09:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 We don't need their permission if we're taking them off the peninsula for good.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-03-08 10:35:20 AM|| 2005-03-08 10:35:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Move them out.

We don't mind you upsetting every else's apple cart, just not ours.

Posted by anonymous2u 2005-03-08 11:17:20 AM|| 2005-03-08 11:17:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 We have other places where the troops left in South Korea can be gainfully employed. BRAC list comes out in May, hopefully most of Korea will be on it.

Posted by RWV 2005-03-08 12:03:56 PM|| 2005-03-08 12:03:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 "The clear thing is that our citizens will not become embroiled in Northeast Asian conflicts without our consent," he said before a graduation ceremony of the Air Force Academyâs 53rd class.

I have a better idea: United States Forces are not to become embroiled in ANY Northeast Asian conflict, PERIOD, and are to be totally and promptly removed.

How's them apples?

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-03-08 12:16:23 PM|| 2005-03-08 12:16:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Roh cannot have it both ways. He cannot have our protection while playing footsies with the Norks behind our backs (in front of our backs?!). I do not think that Mr. Rumsfeld or President Bush likes to be jacked around like this. I sure do not.

I also do not know what the big deal is about having the Norks fall and having to rebuild NK. I am sure that the cost would not be borne solely by the SKors (if they are smart). 1/3 of the problem is with the Norks, 1/3 with the Chicoms, and 1/3 with the SKors. My 2 cents.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-03-08 4:51:29 PM|| 2005-03-08 4:51:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 AP, I agree with you except that I think the US bears 50% of the responsibility. For about 10 years we have acted toward the SKors like the parent who won't let the last child leave home. If we would just pick up the troops and leave they could deal with their problems however they want. If they want to be annexed to China, it's OK with me. I'd be more concerned about the reaction of the Japanese than anything else.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-03-08 5:05:43 PM|| 2005-03-08 5:05:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 As much as I hate to say it, we need to keep a presence in the Land of the Morning Calm, if only as a tripwire. Kim Jong-il is crazy enough that his troops would be across the border as the last US troop ship was pulling out of port. We don't need a shooting war in that part of the world.

That said, the tripwire force doesn't have to be particularly numerous.

Posted by RWV 2005-03-08 6:10:43 PM|| 2005-03-08 6:10:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 North Korea has zero chance of successfully invading SK. In reality, it will be the South Koreans who will counterattack and take the whole of the North. The downside is that SK will lose a good portion of Seoul and its population. The only way the outcome will change is if China invades on the side of the NK again. Even then, I think it will be more psychological, as the Koreans are scared shitless of the Chinese, than a military imbalance.

Still, I have had enough the the Koreans and it is time to take away the US security blanket and let the South Koreans live or die with the consequences of their actions.

Posted by ed 2005-03-08 6:22:35 PM|| 2005-03-08 6:22:35 PM|| Front Page Top

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