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Originally Posted by Rick Lee
What?!?!?! Isn't So. Korea something like in our top five trading partners? Any fight there would inevitably draw China and Japan into the mix and they certainly large trading partners of ours. That's a war we cannot afford on many fronts. 34k troops there is a pretty small force for the disastrous consequences they deter from coming true. It chaps my hide that the younger So. Koreans don't view the North as a threat and, in my fantasy world of fairness, I'd love to see them get a dose of reality the day we remove our last troops. But that's bad for us too. Seoul is about the size of NYC, is within artillery range of the North and is guaranteed to be completely destroyed if fighting breaks out there. We can't afford a war there and several of our big trading partners can't afford it either.
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Rick,
They are a wealthy, modern nation. Let them create the right mix of Army, Air Force and Navy to fend off their enemy. Why don't we have 34k in all of our top, say, ten, trading partners?
Beside, our force there is little more than a trip wire...even our 30 thousand dudes and dudettes will be a skid mark should NK come across. Beside, Shaun could use the textile work
