Posted by
Cuda on Thursday, August 02, 2007 8:55:50 PM
According to this article I found on Yahoo News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070802/wl_nm/afghan_hostages_dc the South Koreans blame us, not the Taliban and Islamofascists for the capture and executions of some of their people. I'm getting just a bit tired of the world blaming America for everything. If we do something proactive, we're branded as baby killers. If we do nothing we're labeled as cold and uncaring. We've been protecting, arming, training, supplying, and guarding the South Koreans since the 1950's. 54,246 of our American soldiers died protecting the South Koreans from the menacing North (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War_Veterans_Memorial). Do those deaths mean nothing to the South Koreans? What about the deaths after the cease fire. For decades we have protected the South, and have fought minor skirmishes with the North, resulting in fatalities. The South Koreans have become a very prosperous nation, and it is largely due to the fact that their jealous and insane relatives in the North are kept at bay with the help of our armed forces. The anti-American trend is growing world-wide. From Europe, to Africa, to Asia, South America, and of course the Middle East. America is ever the villain, until someone threatens their own borders, then they beg us to help, and we rarely turn away. Our goal is to always win hearts and minds, but some hearts are black, and their minds are absent.