Why Are We Still in Korea?

Townhall.com ^ | November 26, 2010 | Pat Buchanan

[vladimir998]

So, an article about S. Korea turns out to be about Israel. (sigh) Pat, Pat, Pat...

[wideawake]

I always like to read Pat Buchanan's articles on any topic, just to see how long it takes for him to start going after Israel or the Jews in general.

He held out for a while this time.

[KevinDavis]

Cause we are still at war with North Korea.. We can hide our heads in the sand all we want.. Isolationism never worked.. If it didn’t work in 30’s it won’t work nowadays..

[bert]

We are de facto still at war. We are in a protracted cease fire

[PGR88]

Korea at least I can understand - there is still a threat from DPRK, and being in Korea also binds Japan to the USA.

What I can NOT understand is being in NATO. NATO was designed to fight the Cold War, which ended 20 years ago. So instead of disbanding, they expand their role to “global cop” and guarantees the security of 35+ nations. The Germans and French can pay for their own security.

[bert]

foot note
1. The same condition of war and cease fire prevailed in Iraq in 2003 until W and Tommy Franks conquered Baghdad and ended the war with Iraq and Saddam Hussein.

[mylife]

Why?

Because it gives us a forward operating base in Asia.

It’s really that simple.

[Bon mots]

Now the Obama Administration is calling for "Diplomacy" to deal with the NorKs. Kim Jong Il is laughing till he wets himself just thinking about negotiating with girly boy Obummer.

[mylife]

I expect we will never leave Iraq either.

I am surprised we haven’t built a naval base at Umm Qasr.

If I was in charge.....

[Bean Counter]

We are still in Korea because if we left, Seoul would fall for a fourth and final time as the North storms across the border to reunite the Korean peninsula “on the tips of our bayonets”. We are there to prevent a South Korean holocaust.

And what any of that has to do with the Jews or Palestine is as elusive as it is in any other column written by Pat.

[Ex-Democrat Dean]

Am I missing something? China still wants to destroy America. Should a shooting war start between us, it will be a whole lot easier to have bases in Korea.

I basically haven’t read Buchanan since he went way overboard in pulling back to our shores.

[Zionist Conspirator]

I don't understand the "palaeo" John Birch types. On the one hand they want all American troops withdrawn from everywhere, but when Jimmy Carter suggested pulling out from Korea in the Seventies and General Singlaub made a speech about how we couldn't do this (and was fired for doing so) they defended him as a hero.

Why can't they make up their minds?

Sometimes the isolationist left hand doesn't know what the anti-Communist right hand is doing.

[SE Mom]

Leave it to Pat to find the Israel - South Korea connection. Does his mind EVER find any issue that isn’t, at foundation, Israel’s fault?

[mylife]

GWB tried really hard to put bases on the Black and Caspian seas.

Really pissed off the Russkies.

[mylife]

There is a reason for the build up in Guam.
The reason is China

[Sola Veritas]

“The Soviet Empire, against which we defended Japan, no longer exists, nor does the Soviet Union.”

I read the article until he made this statement. It just isn’t so. The Russian Federation is just the Soviet Union by another name.....but every bit as dangerous and still a threat.

[Texas Eagle]

Why Are We Still in Korea?

Because we are guarding against mass illegal border crossings by an increasingly desperate populace that is seeking a better life and lawless gangs bent of violence and mayhem.

Errrrrr.....wait a minute......

[Wizdum]

Pat, If you don't America is about defending friends, you don't get anything about our history.

Oh, and South Koreans died first the last time, and this time, or they don't count, do they Pat?

[ASA Vet]

28,000 U.S. troops in South Korea, many on the DMZ

Good place to stop reading this uniformed buffoons drivel.

From other posters comments I see he did get to the real reason for the article, blasting those evil Jews.