I was going to make a wise ass comment about this:
A group of 12 lawmakers from “The Institute for National Strategist Studies” of the Grand National Party (GNP), which has been leading the anti-war campaign, called for a comprehensive review of the government’s troop dispatch plan on Monday.
A representative of the Institute, Kong Sung-jin, said that the South Korea-U.S. alliance is important but should be reciprocal. “We will appeal to other lawmakers in the party to reconsider the troop dispatch plan.”
A “reciprocal relationship?” What the fuck does that mean, you might ask? Well, the Korean version sounded a lot better:
“I hope that the Korea-U.S. alliance develops as an alliance protecting freedom and democracy, but not as a unilateral alliance in which we unconditionally agree with even a mistaken policy.”
The lesson here is that one should never bust on a guy because of what the English-language press said he said. BTW, Kong also pointed out:
Reviewing the troop dispatch does not signify withdrawing the decision to send troops… It just means we must re-discuss the dispatch from the beginning, as the nature of the Iraq War has changed.”
The calls for a review, BTW, have to do with the recent U.S. Senate report Intelligence Committee report that said the Iraq War was launched based on mistaken intelligence.
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RE: “…one should never bust on a guy because of what the English-language press said he said…”
Well said! Even if in English.