Blame America! Blame America!

by Robert Koehler on March 2, 2007

Well, it didn’t take long for Pressian and the Hankyoreh to start blaming the United States for the recent death of a Korean soldier in Afghanistan…

{ 4 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Wedge March 2, 2007 at 6:44 pm: That actually took longer than I would’ve expected. Those guys are slowing down in their old age.
2 Zonath March 3, 2007 at 12:51 am: Nice to know that both of these media outlets are living up to the high standards of decorum and class that we’ve come to expect from them.
3 Irrawaddy March 3, 2007 at 2:28 am: Yes, but Naver’s headline says “Before SSG Yun was killed, there was intelligence about a terrorist bomb”.

-In the context of Afghanistan, that would be like a Seattle weatherman telling us that there might be rain today.
4 beechtreem March 3, 2007 at 9:01 pm: Its fair to blame America but Korea shares the blame. When Canadian soldiers die, Canada shares the blame. But America is equally culpable. So are the soldiers who die for participating in these crimes. It should be understood however that words like America, US, Canada, Korea are metonymns for the power-centers and not the country as a whole.