So, an article about S. Korea turns out to be about Israel. (sigh) Pat, Pat, Pat...
He held out for a while this time.
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..
We are de facto still at war. We are in a protracted cease fire
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.
Why?
Because it gives us a forward operating base in Asia.
It’s really that simple.
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.
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.
Why can't they make up their minds?
Sometimes the isolationist left hand doesn't know what the anti-Communist right hand is doing.
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?
“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.
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......
Oh, and South Koreans died first the last time, and this time, or they don't count, do they Pat?
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.
A little LESS Hyundai's and a lot more SUBMARINES, tanks and Ships..
OH!. and some nuclear missiles, cruise missiles, and drones.. too..
Why Are We Still in Korea?
To control the worlds Kimchi supply!
lol.... I always like to guess who wrote an article, just based on the headline. I guessed Buchanan, and I won my bet again!
Pat is right, again.
Why the hell is the US paying for the defense and spilling the blood of our boys for foreigners, foreigners that don’t even like us.
Koreans hate Americans. They are always protesting us. You just don’t ever hear about it on the US news.
I always laugh when conservatives say we need forward bases abroad when we as a country refuse to protect our territorial integrity and national sovereignty.
Get this: Cslifornia is lost and sooner or later, so will Texas, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico because we have allowed the Mexicans to fight a war of attrition against us without firing a shot in return.
In fact, both parties support an illegal occupation of the United States that will destroy this country through the demographic shift in 30 years.
So, please explain again why we are at war for other foreigners when we don’t even defend our our territory, our law, our culture, our language, and our national sovereignty?
It is ridiculous.
We spend $600 billion for national defense and none of that goes to protect our own borders.
But hey, let us run and protect the Koreans who hate our guts because they can’t get along with their own freaking people.
Would we want foreign countries interfering in our internal affairs with carriers operating off our coasts?
I wouldn’t.
Why cannot Japan defend herself?
Because S. Korea, N. Korea, China, the Philippines, etc. would have an absolute cow if Japan fully rearmed to defend itself.
Our presence there, and in Korea, is for the same reason we keep a presence in Germany, to keep everyone calmed down...