Reader S. Melmoth sends the following thoughts on yesterday’s “Let’s Call Fallujah Their Yorktown and Be Done with It.”
- South Korea also has the misfortune of having their national founding being grounded in humiliation and subservience as their liberation from Japan came via US forces who not only reinstated a collaborationist police state but also outlawed the only indigenous government that existed upon the arrival of the US.
In fact, though there has been much made of the analogy of Vietnam and Iraq, South Korea works better in terms of the perils of occupation and the inability of either the colonial power to extricate itself from its client state or the patron to ever dissolve its subservience to the same. Indeed, the South Korean decision to send 3000 troops to the Iraq adventure (though now delayed) adds a sickening epilogue, tying the whole mess together.