A few questions:
How many people actually beleive that North Korea's intentions toward the South
have, are, and will be, benign.
Although South Korea's "democracy" is highly flawed and corrupt, does anyone
beleive that a takeover by the North would usher in increased freedom or a
higher standard of living for the South (or for that matter, the North)?
Do those who of you who think the South is a military threat to the North also
think that the South started the war back in 1951? (perhaps anyone who would
beleive that also doesn't beleive the Holocaust happened.)
Is it reactionary for the people of South Korea to be willing to fight the
North to preserve the limited freedoms that they have now from being destroyed?
How many people are aware that Karl Marx did not take a stand of militant
pacifism regarding the Franco-Prussian war? He made no bones about the fact
that he thought a Prussian victory would be a setback for the rights of workers
and peasants of Europe.
A war in Korea would mean suffering for the world, whether or not the United
States is involved. It would mean a million or so slaughtered in a fairly short
time. It would mean disruption of the world economy, and you know who pays when
that happens. It is always those with the least to lose. Forget about any
nihilistic fantasies that hard times are somehow going to lead to world
revolution. When ever I hear that one, I think of Lenin's happy anticipation
regarding the soon to come World War. He was quite positve that if and when it
came, the result would be world revolution. The only place to have an actual
"socialist" revolution just happened to be the country where Lenin happened to
be from. What a coincidence.
World War I set Europe backward, and destroyed the possibility of peaceful
reform. It set the stage for the rise of Fascism, and then for the sequel to
World War I. Anyone who liked the WWI no doubt loved WWII.
It has been said that empires are the most dangerous when they are coming to
power, and when they are falling from power. As NK is disintergrating, there is
no telling what there God-Emporer might do, especially considering that he is
surrounded by a bunch of political eunichs whose lives depend on telling Baby
Kim what he wants to hear. If US troops can serve as a deterrent to war, then
so be it. If that makes me a social-imperialist or a social-patriot, so be it.
Also, if the North has peaceful intentions, how does one those infiltration
tunnels leading into the south?
