This is why 28,500 troops are still in Korea.

[CajunBlazer]

98. I'm sorry, but you my friend haven't a clue!

While I was an Air Force officer during the last four years of the Vietnam war, I am more than happy to admit it was a huge mistake. Much of the American public was taken in by the so called "Domino Theory" which later was proved to totally wrong. But a policy of isolation is recipe for disaster.

The leader of North Korea is both a buffoon and a bat shit crazy dictator. His entire family tree is full of egomaniacs who believed their own monstrous lies, and he is no different. Because he has put all of his country's resources into his military while his people starve, he is also extremely dangerous.

South Korea is one of our best allies. They have a model democracy and, by necessity, they also have a large, very highly trained military that is admired around the world. No one want see the ROK army on the other side of a battlefield. They have proven time and time again they are more than willing to help defend us.

On the other hand you are only free to live you life in peace while bitching about the military because that military is there to protects your freedoms, if necessary with their lives. Don't blame the the young men who fought and died in past wars because of the mistakes of the politicians. And those politician didn't exist in a vacuum - if the public had not supported them they would have never gotten into or stayed in office. Also keep in mind that many of the young men who served in Vietnam were draftees or joined because they were going to be drafted. They are not at fault, the American public and the politicians they elected were at fault. If you were politically active at the time, you too were at fault because you didn't do enough to stop the war.

And one more thing to remember, pacifist and isolationist only exist because others are willing give their lives to protect them.