More VDH brilliance in the National Review - should be designated required reading for all State Department personnel. On Korea, he writes:
Future military alliances should not be predicated on large bases, which ultimately encourage insidious relationships, where the dependent party resents the troops, chafes at paternalism, and develops a naive view of the world. Given the far greater economy and population of South Korea in comparison with the North, there is little reason to deploy American troops on the DMZ at all. A gradual withdrawal - with promises that in a time of conflict our planes and missiles will be right behind South Korean youngsters as they slog toward the front - makes far more sense. Note the difference with our real ally Israel, which confronts its formidable enemies with our material help - but without thousands of American soldiers on its Green Line.
READ the rest on your own.
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Heeeyyyyy… you know this is kind of old, this article. But yeah, it’s a good’n.
Kevin