The conclusion of the US-Korea summit between President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea and President Bush of the United States ended with the US and Korean presidents agreeing to hand over war time control of the Korean military back to……

It is the monster devouring the WORLD.

But, if it weren’t for the USA monster, there would be another monster.

Japan? Germany? Russia? Perhaps soon, China.

What we need are leaders who can steer us from conquest and consumption to living in harmony with the world.

Bush is not the answer. He wants to put a Walmart on every corner.

The Koreans and Chinese, having lived in rags throughout history, love that approach.

But is it feasible?

Nobody asks this question.

Why don’t you, Marmot?

Shortly after the time of the incident I had a conversation with one of the sergeants who worked at the mortuary. The crux of the conversation was that the KOREAN employee in question found out the he was being axed from the payroll and had some payback to give. Having been instructed to “clean up” the mortuary by the director Al McFarlane, “said KOREAN” took photos of the “water-soluble solution” known as Formaldehyde being dumped down the drain by the soldiers who worked there; he then submitted the photos to Green Korea.

I wondered out loud to a few folks including some bloggers who follow up on issues like this from time to time and confirmed that none of this information ever made it to the media (or at least wasn’t relayed by the media to the public). Part of the story did seem too convenient so I checked up on it…

The unofficial response I got from Yongsan officials with knowledge of the incident and subsequent onbase proceedings intimated that while the above info is true it is also true that dumping said “water-soluble solution” down the drains has been unwritten SOP in mortuaries around the world, US military and Korean mortuaries alike. I can just imagine the spike in barrels of used formaldehyde quietly being shipped for processing just after the story broke.

Meanwhile, McFarlane wasn’t even in country at the time of the incident, an easily verifiable tidbit of information. He had only been on the job a few months after the previous mortuary director retired after a few decades in the position, and he had left the clean-up order with the said KOREAN employee. Oops.

The irony of that ass, jung chung-rae, talking about justice and truth. Justice would place his anti-american neck beneath Madame Guillotine’s full weight and hence help to restore truth to the peninsula.

If one had any common sense, it would be clear that the real monster of Korea has been and is China. China is behind so much that is wrong in the world at this very moment: of the countries who are now threatening the world with nuclear weaponry (Iran and North Korea) both received technology from China, China is also believed to be in violation of the 1972 accord on biological weapons, according to Reuters, China is supporting the Sudanese regime that is committing genocide at this very moment in time, China is supporting Zimbabwe, another tragic social and humanitarian failure in Africa, historically speaking, guess who helped to split and keep Korea split in half by invading Korea? (it is not America either) and guess who is claiming a sizable part of Korean history and land as their own — not America. This is the real monster that seems to be invisible to Jung.

If China is truly monstrous in its evil and plotting, then one could say that Jung himself is much more a typical political parasite that has plagued Korea and will soon be flushed out with the rest of the current political saboteurs of South Korean society.

Generosity is an unknown concept in Korea - you take all you can and give as little as you have to: iron law of the ajosshi/ajumma.

This is then projected on outsiders - they can’t even imagine that goodwill or generosity could be a factor in another nations actions. If America is here, it must be to plunder, since if the tables were turned they know they would be plundering to the hilt.

The “those foreign guys just play games with and use our women” is the same kind of projection.