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sterbo

This poll is a precursor to the one I really want to ask,
so please give it your best consideration...


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Trocisp

Quite frankly, there's nothing "morally" wrong with it. I do think it's against all intelligent thought to meddle in foreign affairs, or to occupy a sovereign nation.

Foremost, though, I think it's economically moronic. We need to withdrawal our troops not only from the middle east, but from every country that 1) doesn't ask for it, and 2) doesn't cover the expenses of it.

That's right, I think that if South Korea wants American troops to defend their border, they need to pay for them. They need to for pay their salaries, to feed them, their clothing and their medical benefits. I'm not saying that we should put the American Army for sale to the highest bidder, or attack anyone, but we don't need to be spending American Tax Dollars on defending another country without a very, very good reason. South Korea could hold the DMZ themselves, but they've never had to.

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"No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights." - Vladimir Putin
"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried." - Sir Winston Churchill
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"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." - Oscar Wilde
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Viper420

If there was no oil there, we wouldn't be in Iraq. We have basically secured our access to easy oil to keep our economy going, thus protecting our national security.

Viper420

The economies of both nations are tied together and we have a vested interest in maintaining the economic status quo of South Korea. In the long run, they'll be a great help when North Korea comes out of its shell, just like West Germany helped East Germany recover from their communist nightmare.

Trocisp

The United States' economy isn't tied with South Korea, South Korea's economy is tied into the United States'.

I'm still not seeing how our economies couldn't continue to function if they reimbursed the United States for its military protection.

 

Viper420

Very true. South Korea needs us more than we need them. That said, if anything horrible like a North Korean invasion, would create ripples in our economy also. We have scaled back our military presence in the Korean pennisula since the 50's and in that time, the South Koreans have taken over more of their self defence. Being a true world power means that it may be needed to position troops in sensitive areas.

Trocisp

And why, exactly, do we need to be "a true world superpower"? Or, for that matter, why do we need to protect other people?

sterbo

Quid pro quo,
They help prop up our diseased infrastructure and we maintain their stranglehold on dissent,
that in a region if not fully contained, would throw us all well over the edge...

Freedom_User

I don't believe in war. War on the middle east, War on drugs... The after math of it all, is death. There is other ways of solving you're problems than taking a life of someones Son, Daughter, Mother, Brother etc... It's like a school yard fight pumped full of steroids.

Trocisp

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.