Re: South Korea Marines vow thousand-fold revenge

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In a message dated 11/27/2010 3:36:30 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, no_reply writes:

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's Marine commander on Saturday vowed "thousand -fold" revenge for a North Korean attack that killed two servicemen as protesters demanded tougher action by the government against its reclusive neighbor.The two Marines were honored with a gun salute as families wailed and grim-faced officials saluted the funeral cortege, days after North Korea rained shells on a tiny island in the heaviest attack on South Korea since the 1950-53 civil war.

Funny how they call it a civil war when it was an invasion by the Russian and Chinese back Communist North against a South nominally backed by the US. Then again, a senior American official left out South Korea from a list of nations the US would protect in a speech, shortly after which the invasion happened. The Korea War, which is what it was even if the American political leadership refused to call it one (and we probably would have won it if we had because it would have forced us to fight to win and not play fight at the strategic level), could have been won if not for incompetent leadership from McCarthur and his gang.

Anyway, these people might have a right to say these things, but honestly they should back down and let North Korea keep pulling stunts like this shelling. Sure the South could step up security, but it should publicly maintain a level head and seem to ignore the North. The worse the North behaves and the less the South, and the US, seem to "provoke" them, the more world sympathies will align with South Korea. Eventually the North will go too far and even China will have to turn on it.

As it is, things are getting really heated over there and if the shooting starts, we won't be able to accomplish much but likely see some of our troops over there get killed. Of course, the South could invade the North which would take away some of their standing on the world stage and the North Koreas have had decades to dig in. We might have those cute smart bombs and all, but are there enough to knock out all the enemy positions? If the North Koreas are disciplined enough, they could lay hidden and hold their fire until sure of a hit. Such tactics could whittle down an invader and make the losses too heavy for the country to endure and pull back.