Ungrateful Pri....

I would apologize for the profanity but I actually did not say anything. I am all for forward projection but I have long supported the withdrawal of our troops from the DMZ and S. Korea. The Koreans can defend themselves and we aren't winning any friends by being there. The latest incident indicating that (some) Koreans are ungrateful jerks is recounted by Peter Brookes from the Heritage Foundation:

For the last six months, activists have gathered around MacArthur's statue above Inchon harbor for anti-American/anti-alliance hate-fests, including violent attempts to topple the monument. The latest rally was on Sept. 11, a date plainly chosen to sting Americans. Just four days before the 55th anniversary of the Sept. 15, 1950 landing, 4,000 anti-U.S. activists, armed with bamboo poles and metal pipes, led assaults on the statue in Inchon's Freedom Park, calling MacArthur "a war criminal who massacred numerous [Korean] civilians.

Pro-American Koreans have spoken up, too. Indeed, 10,000 of them, including South Korean Marine vets, headed to Inchon on the 15th to guard the statue on the anniversary - at which point the protestors wimped out, pulling a no-show.How quickly the Korean anti-American crowd forgets the facts of "The Forgotten War" . . .