U.S. Troops Out of Korea
The article S. Korea puts off US requests to buy arms, clearly states the current situation of the US-ROK alliance with its subtitle, "Nation slow to share burden; stakes mount for defense contractors" and its first sentence:
South Korea is resisting American requests that it buy new weaponry even as the United States is pouring billions of dollars into Korean security.
The best thing that could happen for this region would be for the US to realize that its troops are unwanted here, that South Korea can well afford to pay for its own defense and that it should begin to do so, that US troops are needlessly in harm's way in a region where vital American interests are no longer at stake and where China is effectively contained by its neighbors (the Koreas, Japan, the Phillippines, Vietnam, Thailand, India, Pakistan, and Russia (all hostile to China's territorial ambitions)) and pull the troops out!
For a similar point of view, read Patrick J. Buchanan's The Coming U.S. Retreat from Asia.
For once, I agree with North Korea (see Withdrawal of U.S. Troops from S. Korea Demanded).
The article S. Korea puts off US requests to buy arms, clearly states the current situation of the US-ROK alliance with its subtitle, "Nation slow to share burden; stakes mount for defense contractors" and its first sentence:
South Korea is resisting American requests that it buy new weaponry even as the United States is pouring billions of dollars into Korean security.
The best thing that could happen for this region would be for the US to realize that its troops are unwanted here, that South Korea can well afford to pay for its own defense and that it should begin to do so, that US troops are needlessly in harm's way in a region where vital American interests are no longer at stake and where China is effectively contained by its neighbors (the Koreas, Japan, the Phillippines, Vietnam, Thailand, India, Pakistan, and Russia (all hostile to China's territorial ambitions)) and pull the troops out!
For a similar point of view, read Patrick J. Buchanan's The Coming U.S. Retreat from Asia.
For once, I agree with North Korea (see Withdrawal of U.S. Troops from S. Korea Demanded).
Redeemed by Our Savior, I work out my salvation with fear and trembling in Pohang, South Korea, where I live with my wife, daughter, and son and teach English at a science and technology university. Baptized a Methodist and raised a Missouri Synod Lutheran in Buffalo, NY, I spent six years as a guest of the Anglican Communion before being received by the Grace of God into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on the Feast of Saint Andrew, my patron, anno domini 2002.
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