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Originally Posted by Ducimus
Lots of people have served there since an annual tour is still, "360 days and a wake up".
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Been there got the cheap t-shirts.
It is still my belief that this is a South Korean issue and that South Korea needs to solve it in a way that supports South Korean agendas.
Just because the United States has a defensive pact with South Korea does not mean that the US military is the tool of the South Korean government.
If the war escalates and South Korea seems to be losing, only then should American forces be commuted.
A defensive agreement does not mean that the US is the first to fight nor does it mean that the US solves a South Korean problem. We will help South Korea solve their problems... that means that the South Koreans do the heavy liftin.
To be brutally honest, and this is only my opinion, the two times I was over in Korea, I did not see anything that would be worth American lives.
I am, admittedly, pretty picky over what we sacrifice American lives for.
The United States spent a lot of tax dollars equipping and training the South Korean military forces. How about the South Korean's start taking care of their own defense for a change before we put any more American lives at risk.
Frankly, if it were up to me, I would pull all American forces out of South Korea. Just because they want a 60 year old war going on, does not mean that we have to stay there.