Posted by
JDComments on Monday, November 13, 2006 9:47:59 AM
With the
announcement by the South Koreans that they will not help us interdict ships suspected of carrying supplies for the North's WMD programs, the time is right for us to reassess our security relationship with them. We still have thousands of troops stationed there, with all the associated costs and attendant danger that armed forces facing one another are always subject to. Now I would have to describe myself as a hawk in terms of my beliefs regarding the protection of our interests and Allies, but I find myself growing more and more disgusted with the South Korean Government and its Sunshine policies toward the North. After all, as a strategic partner they lost their worth with the end of the Cold War, and as an economic competitor, they are being replaced by the Chinese. We need to focus their attention by forcing them to contemplate a world where they would have to protect themselves from the madman on their border without our aid, and if that doesn't change their minds, then we should pack our stuff and leave. Somehow, even as I am sure the omnipresent Liberal college students will be in the street cheering such a possibility, I doubt it will come to that. But if it does, we might someday see how much protesting those students do under Kim Jong Il.