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Why Are U.S. Troops Still In Korea?
Forbes ^ | May 3,2011 | Doug Bandow

Posted on 02/12/2018 2:57:33 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: MrEdd
You really need to stay away from subjects entirely beyond your grasp and you have made it clear that Asian military matters are one of those subjects for you.

A sound appraisal for anyone contemplating getting involved in a land war in Asia.

21 posted on 02/12/2018 3:34:56 PM PST by Gunslingr3
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To: SeekAndFind

“Why Are U.S. Troops Still In Korea?”

Because it is MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE to fight a war there.


22 posted on 02/12/2018 3:38:36 PM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart...I just don't tell anyone)
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To: MrEdd

RE: Have you always been mentally incapable of comprehending a succinct military evaluation, or is this a new mental incapacity for you?

I am humble enough to admit that it is a new mental incapacity for me.

RE: You really need to stay away from subjects entirely beyond your grasp

Why should I stay away from it? The reason I am here is to learn. If it is beyond my grasp now, then I need to be educated so that I can grasp it.

You seem to pride yourself in being a mental giant when it comes to military matters. OK, please educate me.

Let me repeat my statement and you show me where I am wrong instead of getting personal. In other words, attack the argument please.

Here’s what I said ( and I’ll even correct a number ):

The article argues that SK is 30 times ( some say 40 times) richer than NK and is more technologically superior. She can easily develop their own weapons to counter NK.

Why is that observation wrong? Educate this ignoramus...


23 posted on 02/12/2018 3:38:38 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: BobL

RE: Because it is MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE to fight a war there.

Isn’t the point to SAVE on EXPENSES?


24 posted on 02/12/2018 3:39:24 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Because they are our ally

Because we NEED strategically placed staging areas


25 posted on 02/12/2018 3:44:16 PM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: Mr. K

and because asian women are HOT~!


26 posted on 02/12/2018 3:45:16 PM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: SeekAndFind

good answer


27 posted on 02/12/2018 3:46:21 PM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: SeekAndFind

What’s Korea?


28 posted on 02/12/2018 3:48:44 PM PST by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Can’t we re-negotiate this?”

It’s an armistice, not a peace treaty. We could up & leave, sure.. I’m sure that North Korea would welcome that.


29 posted on 02/12/2018 3:49:23 PM PST by Tallguy
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To: SeekAndFind

Korea was the Vietnam war before leftists took over America.


30 posted on 02/12/2018 3:52:53 PM PST by PGR88
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To: SeekAndFind

Without the presence of the USA’s forces, the SoKors will have to quit pretending that they are more than a screwdriver turn away from being a nuclear power.


31 posted on 02/12/2018 3:56:27 PM PST by Trentamj
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To: SeekAndFind

Because someone has to call Japan to tell the Generals that the NORKS have come over the border.

And then it will give us an excuse to bomb them up to the stone age.


32 posted on 02/12/2018 3:58:18 PM PST by Vermont Lt (Burn. It. Down.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“One of the most important is because Washington insists on defending so many of its prosperous and populous allies around the world. They are the international version of Ronald Reagan’s famed “welfare queens.”

South Korea, in addition to is own military expenses ($36billion+) pays about 52% ($845 million) of U.S. costs in South Korea, gets no military aid from the U.S. beyond that, spends nearly 3/4 billion annually on U.S. military equipment for its forces, and has a smaller contingent of U.S. forces on its soil than either Japan or Germany, yet, in a strange juxtaposition of threat versus expenses, is far more threatened, militarily, than either Japan or Germany. Add to that the South Korea is paying about $10 billion of the $12 billion costs of moving Camp Humphreys south of the Han River (south of the river that borders the south side of Seoul).

Additionally, THOSE expenses dwarf the contributions to U.S. deficit spending in the bloated, wasteful, corrupt, “economic-redistributing” federal domestic programs.


33 posted on 02/12/2018 4:04:46 PM PST by Wuli
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m not how you ‘save on expenses’ when you have to fight a war there. We tried pulling our troops out of South Korea in 1949. 364 days later they were back, fighting a war for 4 years, with something like 40,000 deaths. Seems like the SMARTER, and cheaper, move back then would have been to simply keep them there the whole time.


34 posted on 02/12/2018 4:13:06 PM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart...I just don't tell anyone)
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To: SeekAndFind

if you have to ask, then you just don’t get it


35 posted on 02/12/2018 4:22:46 PM PST by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: Dr. Pritchett

$10 short time and $20 overnight.


36 posted on 02/12/2018 4:24:17 PM PST by ebshumidors
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Good, Now that SK is prosperous and we are 20 trillion in debt maybe they can start paying back some of the aid dollars we have given them.


37 posted on 02/12/2018 4:26:44 PM PST by soundapproach
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To: SeekAndFind
Well, ignoramus (your words, and apt) the post you were responding to didn't reference North Korea.The post you responded referenced North Korea and China.

Now I know there are people who still think of China as some picturesque backwater where people in funny hats pull rickshaws full of tourists through rice paddies filled with mosquitoes carrying malaria and yellow fever. Of course it is worth ignoring.

It seem that it falls upon me to inform you that China is now the preeminent communist power with a first world economy and a manufacturing capacity that rivals any on the planet. North Korea was China's proxy in the fifties, and it still is today. When China wants to rattle things up they pull the strings and North Korea complies.

Now, you just attempted to reply to a post referencing the threat North Korea and China pose to South Korea as if China does not exist.

Your self evaluation I referenced in my first sentence is dead on, and the tone I have taken with your foolish nonsense is fully earned.

38 posted on 02/12/2018 4:31:33 PM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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“Your self evaluation I referenced in my first sentence is dead on, and the tone I have taken with your foolish nonsense is fully earned.”


Why be such an ass? Just answer politely.
SeekAndFind is genuinely interested.


39 posted on 02/12/2018 4:55:59 PM PST by RCFlyer
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To: RCFlyer

Ignoring someone else pointing out the vacuousness of this tripe was hardly polite.

There is not a conflict between North Korea and South Korea.
There is a conflict between North Korea as China’s puppet and South Korea. You can not balance the two if you refuse to acknowledge that the Dragon has its thumb on the scales.

Whether South Korea could take out North Korea has always been entirely irrelevant. South Korea cannot stand against North Korea and China.


40 posted on 02/12/2018 5:04:53 PM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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