No, we do have a pirate problem. However, the United States should also have been frank and tell us that they wanted to help us but in return they wish to expand their naval influences into the region, PERPERTUALLY.

But they concealed that latter part. The whole assistance offer was prep up like a charity gift to Malaysia. A fight of good vs. evil with no ulterior motives. It was exposed when we asked them to send radars to us which is more cost effective instead of spending billions of dollars relocating their naval armada into the region.

Sending or loaning us radar equipment will also not put any American soldiers in harms way. We are know what happened when inexperience US soldiers get in trouble. Then our Malaysian navy will have to be called on to save their asses. This happened in Somalia about 14 years ago, when American black hawk helicopters were shot down over at Mogadishu. Our Malaysian UN Peace keeping forces who happened to be there had to risk their lives to go in and rescue those soldiers. Now, if US ships get in trouble at the straits of malacca, who do you think have to go and rescue them out? Us! So let us take care of it but help us by loaning equipment.

In the Straits of Malacca, it was the US that came to us FIRST and offer to help us by sending in their troops. We merely scaled back their orginal offer of help and told them to just send equipments because it is cheaper.

The question you need to ask is, why did they come to us FIRST and offer us help yet when we decided to accept it by scaling down the offer, we were snubbed? It suggests that there were concealed intentions.

Yes, I am familiar with the term armistice, but have you heard of the term “statute of limitations”. The Korean War is a relic. The situation in Korea today is no more dangerous than border skirmishes between hostile nations that share common borders eg. Pakistan-India.

Of course, I’ve never been to Malaysia, so I’m just looking at the big picture.

(By the way, are you familiar with the term “armistice”?)

To be honest, I have only been to south Korea less than 10 days in total. So I don’t know much. That’s good and bad. Bad for the obvious, but good because it is a 10000 foot level view of the big picture. I have seen photos of Panmunjeom, and I saw no South Korean flags, only UN flags. That is a disturbing photograph. I see the DMZ zone still being patrolled like war could erupt at any time when the war has ended since the 1950s. It is again a disturbing picture. But let me get back to your comment. I think US foreign policy is self serving. I posted this before and I am cutting and pasting:

I had always questioned if there were hidden intentions. For example, last year, the US military sent strategies to scare Malaysians about the rampant pirate attacks happening on the straits of Malacca. They said it was very important for us to deal with these pirates which were a threat to our security.

We got so scared by all the statistics, we were literally pee-ing under our pants.

Then, the US military said, that they were willing to HELP US by sending in their troops into the straits of malacca to help us deal with the pirates.

WOW! How generous. I always knew the Americans of being generous. Of course there were Malaysian sceptics. 20 years of Mahathirism help created these sceptics who think that the US military are concealing their true intentions of spreading their naval power into South East Asia and using piracy as a pretext to enter the region.

But most of us believe what the American s told us. We believe in the generousity that American military is willing to spend billions and billions of dollars to send in their naval armada into our straits of malacca to help us fight these pirates.

But in our hearts, we felt uneasy accepting such a big gift. So at the last minute, we proposed to scale down the gift. Instead of the Americans sending in their naval armada, let’s just have them send us their radar equipments. That way, our own Malaysian Navy can do the job of fighting the pirates and we can use their radar equipment to locate those pirates. This would cost the Americans far less money and the objective would still be achived. Like they say, don’t give a hungry man fish, because he will be hungry the next day and he will need to come to you again. Instead teach him how to fish.

We haven’t heard back from the Americans since.