Posted on 11/17/2006 7:13:02 PM PST by Lunatic Fringe
President Hillary will need that money and the coming tax increases to fund her health care plan.
There's a simple solution which will protect the US and insure the rights of property owners that don't want a fence on the international border at their south property line.
We acknowledge his property rights and don't build it there.
We approach the next property owner to the north and ask to put it just North of his property line. Bet we won't have to go north many properties to find a willing owner who wants his property and his Nation protected.
But the SK does fear the NK's massed amounts of dug-in artillery that could fire tens of thousands of rounds into the civilians of the South in the opening minute of a war. The ROKA would have to go north to silence many of them, or at least wait until they ran through their ammo stocks. The SK probably also fears the chaos caused by NK Special Forces and southern traitors who look upon Kim as the new Emperor Wang Guhn.
They probably don't fear the missiles so much -- NK can't afford to make to many of them and they would be vulnerable to air attack once a war started. They don't fear an NK nuke because why would Kim want to destroy what he considers his rightful due?
Finally, as said above, what the SK fears the most is the cost of unification. All that cheap labor terrifies the SK's unions. All that primitive lifestyle requiring massive tax dollars to bring up to a modern level terrifies SK's businesses. All those new voters without an established SK party affiliation scares the SK's politicians. And all those believers raised to worship Kim and his dad as God Kings scares the Christians and other believers in the South.
So the SK prefers to do nothing in the hopes of maintaining the status quo.
Don't forget, the suggestion was to build the fence all around the US. That's a lot of coastal property owners to involve.
hell baseing time from "last" huh.
I second that emotion ... we need to redeploy to Okinawa. What is the exit strategy from Korea? Or from Germany for that matter?
N. Korea will play the same games they were playing at Pyong Yang in the 1950's, and they will continue the pandering in hopes to stall for time. Any form or attempt at appeasement will never be looked upon with any regard by the N. Koreans. We would be remiss if we did not take a very hard line against the communists in this area.
This has to be posturing to make S. K look like the good guys.
I believe you have fallen into the old well-worn formulic of why something won't or can't happen. But that's okay. So has the intelligence of the U.S. Othewsie we would have anticipated Saddam's invasion of Kuwait.
The major problem if a war happens is the refugees that are starving, and the NK military that's left that would soon be starving.
And it seems that the political climate today, after iraq, allows dictators to starve and kill their own people and the UN will allow them to stay in power, un-molested. The funniest thing I've seen is europe complaining about the the possibility of saddam getting the death sentence.
Because the South Koreans are more dedicated to their ethnic brothers and sisters in the North than to freedom and capitalism. Most of them would rather reunite under Marxism than go to war with them and risk a few of their lives.
S. Korean presidential election: Dec., 2007
Legislative election:probably Apr., 2008
The general mood in S. Korea has turned against N. Korea after the nuclear test. That is, it is now fashionable to blast N. Korea, while its apologists tend to be subdued.
Many of those who used to be pro-North and anti-U.S. is no longer pro-North, and grudgingly acknowledge the need to ally with U.S.. Those who have been anti-North and pro-U.S. all along are now much vocal and their views are no longer dismissed off-hand among young generation.
Those in 20's showed the dramatic turnaround. Their support for conservative opposition is stronger than in 30's or 40's. They are finally staging public demonstration against N. Korean nuclear test.
I agree, it's time to leave South Korea.
I work with a gentleman who was a General in South Korea, and he said the US was there to keep the South from going North almost as much as to keep the North from going South.
I agree. Isn't intercepting another nation's ships considered an act of war? I can't imagine why S.Korea would ever agree to such a thing.
Excuse me, you Paleocons drive me crazy. Stop thinking about that Pat Buchanan conservative Tom Tancredo, he's not a Reagan Conservative, I bet you he's anti-Israel. He would make a terrible President.
Reading the full story it sounds like South Korea supports us but doesn't feel they should be forcefully stopping north Korean ships
I can see where they would feel like all those military confrontations between North and South Korean ships present a lot of possibilities for escalation.
Now, I can also understand that the SK government needs to continue to make it darn clear they support our efforts.
I think You are Correct...
that "limp-wristed nancy boy" has done alot more to protect you and your loved ones from the imminent threats than any of us could claim, so you'd better choose your words carefully...and show a little respect...
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