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2008-04-08 China-Japan-Koreas

'34 Percent of S Korean Army Cadets Regard US as Main Enemy'

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-04-08 12:57|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 34% isn't a majority. It is a plurality.

And what if we just decided to wish the SoKos best wishes and bail from the peninsula? What would be the outcome, globally speaking?

(Me, I'd be a little worried about the warranty on my Samsung TV, but beyond that...)

Posted by Sonny Elmeamp2499 2008-04-08 13:06|| 2008-04-08 13:06|| Front Page Top

#2 No problem. Just relocate our troops to somewhere else, like Okinawa, or Iraq or Afghanistan.
Let the South Koreans eat grass, just like their North Korean "friends".

Posted by Rambler in California">Rambler in California 2008-04-08 13:24|| 2008-04-08 13:24|| Front Page Top

#3 The devil is in the details. For example, if you asked US Democrats which nation is the main source of evil in the world, would you even be surprised if 34% said the US?

Remember that their military is conscript, but our is volunteer. This is why over 90% of our military self-identify as Republicans.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-04-08 13:49|| 2008-04-08 13:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Nope. These are cadets. Future carreer officers and yes they are voluntary.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-04-08 13:57|| 2008-04-08 13:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Now that phrase makes me think, We have a republican Army?

Damn bad idea to be a Democrat. They have no army (Small "a" on purpose)

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-04-08 14:00|| 2008-04-08 14:00|| Front Page Top

#6 ungrateful children

Posted by Crolusing tse Tung2745 2008-04-08 14:03|| http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z162/R42008/hillaryfright.jpg]">[http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z162/R42008/hillaryfright.jpg] 2008-04-08 14:03|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm still for completely pulling out of the South. They can take care of themselves and at most they would need only some air support from us if the North invaded. Let them go on their own.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-04-08 14:12|| 2008-04-08 14:12|| Front Page Top

#8 When the Democrats demand that we withdraw from Iraq, we should instead withdraw from S. Korea, then Kosovo, then Germany.

Posted by Master of Obvious 2008-04-08 14:38|| 2008-04-08 14:38|| Front Page Top

#9 Who knew that so many South Korean army cadets were getting an American junior high / high school / college / university education?

Posted by MarkZ 2008-04-08 14:39|| 2008-04-08 14:39|| Front Page Top

#10 Was this poll conducted by the same Zogby group that claimed that (almost) 100% of US troops were voting Donk this year? Enquiring minds and all....

Posted by BA 2008-04-08 14:41|| 2008-04-08 14:41|| Front Page Top

#11 Wouldn't they miss the money our troops spend over there? Isn't that the main reason we're still in Germany?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2008-04-08 14:42|| 2008-04-08 14:42|| Front Page Top

#12 self-fulfilling prophecy?

Posted by Iblis 2008-04-08 14:47|| 2008-04-08 14:47|| Front Page Top

#13 Wouldn't they miss the money our troops spend over there? Isn't that the main reason we're still in Germany?

Abu Uluque, that was true when Mr. Wife moved us to Germany in 1991, and everyone complained about how wild the American soldiers got when they got drunk, and how they drove rent prices up beyond what ordinary Germans (meaning the speaker) could afford (meaning was willing) to pay. When we left for Brussels in 1995, almost all the bases had been shut down and evacuated; everyone complained that they couldn't afford the mortgage on that investment property given how low the rents had fallen, and all the good pubs were going out of business now that the American soldiers weren't there to buy drinks for the girls. (The rent on our house in Bad Soden am Taunus went down by 25% the day we moved out.) There really aren't all that many bases left over there.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-04-08 15:12|| 2008-04-08 15:12|| Front Page Top

#14 South Korea may ask U.S. to pause troop drawdown Go figure!

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-04-08 15:23|| 2008-04-08 15:23|| Front Page Top

#15 Unfortunately, as someone who agrees we should evacuate all our troops from Korea, it would create too inviting a target for the Chinese and that would have a detrimental impact on our relationship with the Japanese. So we'll stay as a trip wire, at least until Korea is reunited.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-04-08 15:34|| 2008-04-08 15:34|| Front Page Top

#16 South Koren schools and text books are at fault, these people are going on what they have been taught. The question is why they have been taught that?

I am all for getting the hell out anyway. We can't afford to keep borrowing money to fight the Korean war of the 1950s and the war on terror today. Our enemy isn't China or North Korea, it is Iran.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2008-04-08 17:00|| 2008-04-08 17:00|| Front Page Top

#17 Our enemy is~~n't~~ China or North Korea, it is Iran.

There, fixed it for ya.

Order of importance may differ but substance is the same.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-04-08 19:00|| 2008-04-08 19:00|| Front Page Top

#18 As per REDDIT > JAPAN IS DYING [demographically]. Too many Senior Citizens + women proclaim to "hate sex" - may take decades to recover at the normal replacement rate, iff they ever do???

As for the SOKOR Kayyydets > remind me of ROBIN WILLIAMS' post 9-11 comedy skit, IIRC ON HOW FRANCE-EUROS ANGRILY HATE AMERICA UNTIL THE GERMAN ARMY STARTS CROSSING THE BORDER, WHEN HATE OF AMER SUDDENLY, WEIRDLY AND MYSTERIOUSLY TURNS INTO LOVE AND ADMIRATION.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-04-08 20:25|| 2008-04-08 20:25|| Front Page Top

#19 OTOH, and considering how closely IRAN + NOKOR have marched in-step vv Dubya-USA, its prob pragmatic to give NOKOR that same 3 to 3-1/2 Year subjective maxima timeline [r.o. 2012]to attempt to become a de facto SOVEREIGN NUCLEAR POWER ALA IRAN + OSAMA/RADICAL ISLAMISM. AGAIN HOWEVER, UNLIKE IRAN WHICH HAS THE WHOLE OF THE ME + CHAOTIC CENTRAL ASIA [now AFRICA?] REGIONS TO MILPOL MANIPULATE, NOKOR HAS MIL-SUPERIOR SOVEREIGN NATIONS = CHINA + US ALLIES ON ALL BORDERS/FLANKS. Also unlike IRAN, NET > Many PRC Maps depict NOKOR = even both KOREAS as "UNANNEXED/AUTONOMOUS" CHINESE TERRITORY(S) = PART OF CHINA. As things stand, unless is Commie Beijing is so willing the only way for NOKOR to be truly sovereign and independent is to first allow itself to be militarily blown into kimchi smithereenies by either China's PLA or the West [UN Command]. STARVE UNDER LOCAL COMMUNISM, OR DIE IN THE NAME OF NOKOR FREEDOM vv GREAT POWER [China/US-Allies] CONFRONTATION.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-04-08 20:47|| 2008-04-08 20:47|| Front Page Top

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