While receiving a courtesy visit from GNP presidential candidate Lee Myung-bak, former president Chun Doo-hwan said if the Taliban hadn’t freed the Korean hostages, he would have considered going to Afghanistan to offer himself as a hostage instead. He noted that he had Special Forces training, and could have handled the difficult conditions better than the younger hostages.
Former President Chun Considered Offering Self to Taliban
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I lived in Korea for two years and I am currently in Iraq. The Korean people have absolutely no comprehension of the sheer level of hate and abject cruelty that people in this part of the world are capable of committing. It truly is a sick example of sending sheep into the mouths of wolves when these well meaning, but completely detached from reality, missionaries go to places like Afghanistan and expect to make the world a better place.
I have no doubt that Lee Myung-bak may have been a bad ass at one point; but he clearly has lost his marbles. This type of useless rhetoric illustrates a fundamental naivety among Koreans regarding the world in general and the Middle East in particular.
The Taliban achieved their goals at a price of near zero effort. If I were to be kidnapped, I would be disgusted if my government conceded to these kinds of demands or said something as stupid as he did.
I am glad the hostages are released; I am disgusted at the Korean government’s lack of spine. Having seen the sheer horror that exists in the Middle East, I would rather handcuff my daughter to my house than let her even visit Afghanistan.
This must be Mr. Chun’s desperate attempt at getting media attention, or maybe his senility is kicking in.
Either way, this is the funniest shit anyone has ever said about the hostage crisis. Kudos to him!
(BTW, Griego, Lee Myeong-Bak has nothing to do with this.)
Yeah, me too. If the Taliban hadn’t released the hostages, I also would have considered offering myself as a substitute hostage.
Really. No, seriously. Really. Honestly. Truly.
Fortunately for everyone involved, the hostages were freed and it never came to that. But I would have. Really.
Mr. Chun, it’s a little late to be trying to atone for your sins. However, offering yourself over to an extremely hostile force is commendable and STUPID!!! I agree that senility and delusions of grandeur must be settling in on dear old Mr. Chun.
An excellent proposal from Chun. Even if the hostages were freed, Chun should still trade himself over to the Taleban to prevent future hostage taking.
He should go now, before it’s too late.
Yup, that would’ve been SUCH a good trade!
Now if Kim Dae-jung had only made that offer…..
Notice how Chun made this hypothetical offer only AFTER they were freed? A profile in courage from the man who tried with no small success to pass the buck on the Kwangju Massacre to the United States.
…is it too late to send him?
Ha ha. My wife reckons Mr. Chun should pay his taxes first.
#7 -
Yeah, but he wouldn’t. Too hard to play the
puppetmasterelder statesman from a dungeon in Afghanistan.The Taliban might go for it though… no doubt they’ve heard about his prowess in obtaining briefcases full of Benjamins for murderous tyrannical nutjobs.
#10,
…and the fines.
Sounds like a bad movie: Taliban, Part 3: Enter The Butcher of Kwangju.
Hey, don’t mess with Chun he is tougher than woodpecker lips. Back in his Special Forces days he would wrestle Grizzly bears; even let them start on top. Then there is the time he stirred the coals of a campfire with his dick. Taliban, if you see him coming down your sidewalk, I would cross the street!
Let us instead consider offering pawikirogi to the Taliban.
#15,
That’s mean.
‘This type of useless rhetoric illustrates a fundamental naivety among Koreans regarding the world in general and the Middle East in particular. ‘ diepo
I’ll bet your average Korean is more informed about the world than your average American. and let’s thank god that Korea’s lack of understanding doesn’t result in useless wars and millions dead. You comprende, diego?
#17, You mean like the Korean War, retard?
I’m sorry I made a mistake – I meant “son of a retard.”
A nice empty gesture in a land of empty gestures.
Maybe Chung Doo Hwan will have to carry out his threat and do his campfire trick with the Taliban if they decide to hang on to to the remaining 7 hostages until the Korean govt. coughs up more money.
17 pawi, did your parents have any children that lived?
Don’t you like it when Yankie boys pretend to speak a foreign language?
It is because of this cultural and financial success that the good willing Koreans (missionaries) are in more grave danger of being victims of terrorism than your average Yank would. I could walk down any street in Korea, at any time, and never be in mortal fear of my own life. People don’t (as a rule of thumb) shoot other people in Korea. Outside of a few Mokpo beatings, the violent crime rate in Korea is low. This is a good thing.
Americans are used to the constant threat of violent crime. Knowing what I know, I would never venture into a place like Afghanistan, wander around an open market without a platoon of very tough men with automatic weapons at my side! It is the average Koreans’ sheer naivety of the world that is so dangerous. From believing that Kim Jong Il wants to hold hands with you, to believing that the Taliban wants to hear about Jesus, Koreans need to wake up. The rest of the world is not as nice of a place as Korea is.
This “stupid Yank” has only lived in four countries, visited 20, and speaks three languages. What would I know about the world anyway?
Pawi, your Spanish sucks.”¿Tu me comprendes?”
Dealing with the Taliban and most likely paying them ransom is a nice dry-run for the October inter-Korean summit. With a family history of totalitarian misrule and a body count that is arguably far worse than the ragtag Taliban, Kim Jong-il holds some 500 South Koreans hostage from various kidnappings over the years.
My point exactly
I believe another possibility would’ve been “¿Entiendes, coño?”
Is stirring coals with you dick the next level up in firewalker class? This has been a good week for humor in my little corner.
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