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2002-12-15 Axis of Evil

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2002-12-15 09:16 am|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 After the big protests by So. Korean ~~idiots~~
students wanting the U.S. to leave, and the continuous raised middle finger from the No Koreans, I wonder what stake we have in this peninsula? Japan, yes, and Taiwan as well, but if we puled out today, the South and North would have to face a bad reality, with a lotta dead Koreans as the result. But our troops, who serve only as a tripwire, shouldn't be sacrificed for these ignorant and ungrateful bastards

Posted by Frank G 2002-12-15 10:24:59|| 2002-12-15 10:24:59|| Front Page Top

#2 If the positions were reversed, and South Korea was the superpower, and they judged the USA by its college students... I think you need to find a better basis for policy suggestions.

Posted by Joe Katzman 2002-12-15 11:09:50|| [www.windsofchange.net] 2002-12-15 11:09:50|| Front Page Top

#3 Stores and restaurants are posting prominent signs that Americans will not be served. Non students are doing this. It is a general Korean problem and U.S. policy should not ignore it.

Posted by Fred Boness 2002-12-15 11:39:52|| 2002-12-15 11:39:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Joe, as Fred also noted, the protesters aren't limited to students by any means. I should've been clearer. I would expect that were the roles reversed, we would be told to knock off the protests or they would withdraw their aid, support. Fortunately for Seoul, we aren't as brusque. I just don't see what's in the US's interest in exposing our troops to protect what seems an ungrateful ally

Posted by Frank G 2002-12-15 12:26:10|| 2002-12-15 12:26:10|| Front Page Top

#5 should publicly wash our hands of sk... also france and germany...

say that they are outside of american protection and we are indifferent to what happens...

how'd they react to that??

Posted by Anonymous 2002-12-15 14:09:07|| 2002-12-15 14:09:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Wes Dabney said that 50K person protest is an annual thing put together by agents of NK and the commies.

Posted by Anonymous 2002-12-16 01:00:08|| 2002-12-16 01:00:08|| Front Page Top

#7 The first person who can figure out the Koreans wins the Nobel Prize in Physics (not Peace)since he will also be able to explain anti-gravity, big bang and the second coming of Christ.

Posted by Jack 2002-12-16 06:07:29|| 2002-12-16 06:07:29|| Front Page Top

#8 I agree with Jack. Don't try to figure anything in Korea politics or culture out. They just don't conform to anything in the western universe. Next to them, the Chinese and the Japanese are straightforward.

Posted by 11A5S 2002-12-16 07:08:55|| 2002-12-16 07:08:55|| Front Page Top

#9 Its bad policy to pull out when things are loud. It enourages folks like the NK to be bellicose. The US should tell the South Korean Government that we intend to pull out within 5 years and they will have to pick up the slack.

Posted by rurprecht 2002-12-16 11:29:48|| 2002-12-16 11:29:48|| Front Page Top

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