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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
Fri May 11, 2018, 10:34 AM May 2018

Poll - Removing our troops from the Korean Peninsula

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Do you favor removing American troops from the Korean Peninsula in return for a vague promise from North Korea to denuclearize?


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Poll - Removing our troops from the Korean Peninsula (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth May 2018 OP
In fact catsudon May 2018 #1
Did we ever have troops in Taiwan ? DemocratSinceBirth May 2018 #2
Yes catsudon May 2018 #4
South Korea is big enough to look after itself against North Korea and has been for a while. Pope George Ringo II May 2018 #3

catsudon

(839 posts)
4. Yes
Tue May 15, 2018, 11:17 AM
May 2018

After ww2, it was USA & allies who handed taiwan back to republic of China who is fighting peoples republic of China on the mainland. When I was in elementary school back in Taiwan in the late 70’s I have vivid memories of a company of US soldiers resting in our school.

Pope George Ringo II

(1,896 posts)
3. South Korea is big enough to look after itself against North Korea and has been for a while.
Fri May 11, 2018, 11:12 AM
May 2018

The only reason to want to keep troops there indefinitely is if you think China would get involved after we left. That said, you have to be very careful timing the actual withdrawal. This is not a good time.

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