The times, they are changing,

The Pentagon plans to give South Korea wartime operational control over U.S. troops within three years and will keep U.S. troop levels at more than 20,000 over the next several years, defense officials said yesterday.

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Does anyone besides me think that idea absolutely stinks? Yeah, the ROKs are our friends, and all that, but I think it's also pretty obvious they'd be willing to sacrifice American troops to save their own. What rocket scientist comes up with these brainfarts?

Contributed by Bill Faith on August 4, 2006 at 01:22 PM in Bill Faith | Permalink

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Posted by: Rurik

Was this drizzle shit idea really from the Pentagon? I'd thunk only Foggy Bottom could come up with something this incompetent.
Hell, the ROKs haven't even been our friends for the last decade or more. They keep bad mouthing our troops, and comlaining that we won't treat Curley Jong Il as our newest boyfriend. Our troops are no longer there to enforce restraint on the North, but upon ourselves; hostages to our continuing reluctance to confront Chairman Curley.
We should have redeployed our troops ten years ago, and let the ROKs take over their own defense, if they think they need any. Now we ought to rectify that oversight at once.

Posted by: Rurik | Aug 4, 2006 1:41:48 PM