Re: Our Korean Allies

["Young Kim" <ysk@kimsoft.com>]

Right, Dan -

One key factor SK has to take into account is its economic stake in Arab
nations.  As you know SK has large construction projects in Libya, Saudi
Arabia, Egypt, etc., and dispatching troops to Iraq may place these
multi-billion dollars projects in jeopardy.


Young Kim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Love Shack" <Home@DanSources.com>
To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@listproc.cc.ku.edu>
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 9:15 AM
Subject: Re: Our Korean Allies


> YES.. that is true..
> BUT Kim Il Sun did not have active Nuke weapons in 65'
> and a threatening posture as the new leader does today.
>
> IMHO we should pull out of Korea at least 10 to 20000 troops.
> and have SK replace them.  It would be far more effective.
>
> Need to mange resources. Iraq is not their fight and should not be ours.
> Had the intention been to really free Iraq the results would be much
> different.
>
> It was about the Oil and the protection of the flow of that resouce.
> That is the intention and the result of a fractured plan for anything
else.
>
> One of the major issues in WW2 was the worry that Russia and Germany
> would have allied.  The middle east would be so differerent today.
>
> Very few people know this Nazi Germany and Facist Italy
> sided with Russia and China before 1938/9.
>
> Dan Fahey
>
> against Japan
>
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike Davino" <mdavino@yahoo.com>
> To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@listproc.cc.ku.edu>
> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 11:08 AM
> Subject: Re: Our Korean Allies
>
>
> > That's true, but the north Koreans were on their front
> > doorstep in 1965, and that didn't stop the the South
> > Koreans from sending two entire infantry divisions
> > plus a brigade of Marines to help us out in Vietnam.
> >
> > Mike Davino
> >
> > --- Love Shack <Home@DanSources.com> wrote:
> > > Maybe this is because they have a real big dangerous
> > >
> > > situation right on their own front door step.
> > >
> > > Dan Fahey
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > From: "Mike Davino" <mdavino@yahoo.com>
> > > To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@listproc.cc.ku.edu>
> > > Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 10:34 PM
> > > Subject: Our Korean Allies
> > >
> > >
> > > > I have heard for years how close an alliance we
> > > had
> > > > with the South Koreans.  It seems like the current
> > > > generation of Korean leaders has forgotten all
> > > that.
> > > > They are really waffling on a decision to send
> > > combat
> > > > troops to help us out in Iraq.
> > > >
> > > > Mike Davino
> > > >
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