At a ceremony recognizing the signing of an armistice that nominally ended hostilities on the Korean Peninsula 60 years ago, President Obama touted the conflict as a “forgotten victory” for the US military and sought to use it as an example of the “legacy” of the US occupation of Afghanistan.
“Korea was a victory,” Obama insisted, praising South Korea as a “vibrant democracy” since the US involvement in the Korean War, and omitting mention of those couple of military coups along the way.
The US has also deployed massive amounts of troops to South Korea for the past 60 years, an outlay of billions of dollars to continue fighting a war that still hasn’t technically ended, and which every year or two seems to be on the brink of erupting into bloody clashes again.
President Obama signed a deal to keep US troops in Afghanistan through at least 2024, but in the context of Korea that seems to be overly optimistic, with Obama apparently seeing another half century of occupation and a country divided in half as a result not only satisfactory, but one to shoot for.
Here again, this man is manipulating the lost Korean war with victory and comparing it to occupied Afghanistan while USA occupying South Korea among other nations around the world.
The Korean War will end once and for all when the Korean nation is united and is not occupied by any foreign militarism then the Korean defense force.
The world will be in peace the day when there is no militarism regime as USA and NATO forcing their world agendas by either creating wars based on falsified ideas, killing people or dividing nations.
Shame on you assassin. Only gullible people are silent against you liar.
Perhaps if our Chief Executive and his cohorts in Congress had been present at the Inchon landing or perhaps Heartbreak Ridge, and or the fight for the Chosin Reservoir, his interpretation of what constitutes victory and or justified war might be viewed differently.
Sitting in comfortable chambers to decide when to send America's youth off to possible death or injury seems to many of us as an unearned, uneducated and unlikely scenario for Members of Congress and or the Administration. Those who itch to start wars either for profit or ideological motives should, along with their loved ones, be the first to go!
Sixty years on and the Korean war is unresolved, with the militarization of the entire peninsula. And Obomber sees a "lesson" in this?
Sorry, South Korea achieved democracy IN SPITE of the US, who worked to keep thugs like Park Chung-hee and Chun Doo-hwan in power for decades.
The exceptionally American idiot.
Obummer must get his marching orders and history lessons from his useless generals that enjoy rewriting history. Japan enslaved the Koreans from 1900-1945, putting tens of thousands of girls and young women in their military brothels. The Korean war lasted less than 3 years and cost the lives of 37,000 Americans. From 1953-1968, Korea laid as a wasteland, and the military had a handful of troops there, augmented by the infamous KATUSA. Then came Vietnam, and new money and people flooded the country of the 'not quite right.' It wasn't until after the 1988 Olympics did anyone in the Pentagon think Korea was important. Korea has no relation to the failed war of choice in Afghanistan.