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2004-06-03 Home Front: WoT

US Is on Brink of Major Military Change in Korea and Europe

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Posted by Steve 2004-06-03 10:29:32 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 About time!! I don't have any stars on my collar, but even I can see the most logical move this side of Spock. The South Koreans are ungrateful, and I would bet my bottom dollar, they would fight for they're way of life then letting 'Kimmy' put his footstool in they're doorway. And as for the EU; it's 'Buck Up Time'!

Posted by smn 2004-06-03 11:56:31 AM|| 2004-06-03 11:56:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 So long, Itaewan... buh-bye, Harry's of K-Town...it's been real, we had a real fine time, but gotta go, other priorities, ya know... y'all stay in touch, you hear?

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2004-06-03 3:07:33 PM|| [www.sgtstryker.com] 2004-06-03 3:07:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Park a carrier in the vicinity of South Korea and Taiwan. See if he moves.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-06-03 4:29:04 PM|| 2004-06-03 4:29:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I enjoyed my years in Germany, paid for mostly by the US taxpayer, but that was then. This is now, when the threat of the Soviet Union is no more and new threats lie in different places.

Head 'em up and move 'em out.

And that includes Bosnia, etc., too - FIRST. Let the Euros nuance their way through that genocidal mess.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-06-03 6:42:45 PM|| 2004-06-03 6:42:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Should leave just enough ground troops to guard the air base at Osan. Everyone else out of the pool. Were the Norks to attack, unfettered use of airpower would quickly solve their overpopulation problem. The main axes of attack from the North would very quickly become "highways of death."

On the other hand, Itaewon will never be the same. All the stores will have to pull out their Japanese signs again.

Posted by RWV 2004-06-03 6:48:49 PM|| 2004-06-03 6:48:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 As for Europe, significantly reducing our current basing structure would still provide adequate protection from any would be Napoleons. Airpower based in Iraq, Britain and Italy could shred any attacking armies. The Euros can fight their own ground war against terrorists.

Posted by RWV 2004-06-03 6:52:56 PM|| 2004-06-03 6:52:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 visiting U.S. sailors and Marines aboard the USS Essex, a helicopter carrier that is in port at Singapore

I love it. Formula 3 carrier still scares the hell out of most of the world.

Posted by Shipman 2004-06-03 7:25:23 PM|| 2004-06-03 7:25:23 PM|| Front Page Top

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