US Out of Europe, Korea, Japan…
I’ve been arguing for awhile now that the United States needs to “bring the troops home” from places like South Korea, Germany, Italy, the UK and Japan. Investor’s Daily seems to agree:
We’ve been Europe’s security blanket for six decades. We are Japan’s security blanket. We are South Korea’s. It’s been said that were it not for us, the French would be speaking German and the Germans would be speaking Russian. In 1938, the West decided it couldn’t be Czechoslovakia’s security blanket and sold out that country in Munich, Germany. The rest, as they say, is history.
Anyone who believes that our troop presence is “inflaming the situation” in Iraq must also visit Seoul, or talk to the Okinawans – places where there is a lot of friction between the locals and the US military.
So why do we stay in these places? If we must leave Iraq, shouldn’t we leave Germany – a nation that has lived “under occupation” for sixty years – first?
DJ:
perhaps all that is true but the before all that , if it werent for France America wouldnt really exist
26 April 2008, 10:34 pmScott Kirwin:
Dj
27 April 2008, 9:03 amOkay, then by that logic if it wasn’t for the Saint-Dominue rebels who halted the French invasion of North America in Haiti in 1803, I’d be communicating in French. For more on the myth of Franco-American friendship, see this WSJ piece.