Farmers in South Korea Battle the US Military


Camp Humphreys, one of the US military's most important installations on the Korean peninsula has the largest airstrip of any installation outside the the US and the only one on the peninsula. The base will be expanded to 3,600 from 1,200 acres and encompass all of Daechuri and neighboring village Doduri by 2011.

I thought the Air Strip was at Osan? I love it when reporters do not have all their facts!

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They are several airstrips in Korea (military) and Camp Humphreys is not the biggest. Kunsan, Deagu and a few others.

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They must find it difficult...

Those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority. --Gerald Massey

I think the author probably ment Osan but still that just leaves the author with a credibility gap. The other thing is that it is not pointed out that it is the Korean government doing the taking not the US.

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Well if it goes like normal, they don't care. They believe what they read.

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They must find it difficult...

Those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority. --Gerald Massey

I skimmed the last few paragraphs after checking how long it was.

Typical higher education taught BS.

The quote from the farmer at the end wanting to know why "the US" is taking land is classic crap:

Being focused on a personal quote from "the common man" to get you to turn your brain completely off -- who could piss on a farmer? Not you.....unless you are the kind of person who wants to think....

about things like North Korea, its "military first" policy, its activities against the South, national security, and what not.....

Then the paragraph or two before last ----

using stats on how the "18-23" year old group would support NK in a war, not the South.

Horsehockey....

The reason this is objectionable ----- if the guy is in Korea and he is educated and he is paying attention -----

he would have to know the BULK of the Korean population is in favor of the expansion at least as a means to keep the US-SK alliance from falling apart...

which means THE VAST MAJORITY OF KOREANS CAN ANSWER THE FARMER'S QUESTION!!!!

The US is getting more land ------ because that majority wants USFK there.

Nimrod........author....

I thought this paragraph was comical.

It makes the protesters look so innocent. They were just minding their own business and were attacked. They had no plans for violence, but the police forced them to whip out their bamboo sticks. Ok, these bamboo sticks don't just fit in your pocket! These things are huge. You only bring them if you plan on sing them!

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The more I've thought about the, the more toward pissed off I get about this article.

It really is inexcusable bullshit.

It is just as bad as the Korean radical anti-US group leaders and their university student minons -- both on how they depict the US-SK relationship as nothing but master-slave but even much more so on --- how they depict North Korea as just another nation or even a pretty good one bad mouthed by outside propaganda by the US and others.

The reason it pisses me off ---

as Mike pointed out very well ---- you really have to go out of your way to -- down right lie ----- when you say stuff like that.

The description of the battle at the school house is a clear lie.

It is an "anything goes to justify my righteous point" --- which is common in Korean anti-US activity, but I expect more from a non-Korean and most likely college educated person.

I have strong opinions on the US-SK relationship I express in strong terms on the www.usinkorea.org site, and I am convinced my point of view is corret ---

----and since there is so much presented on it, and I am sure there are places where I got my fact(s) wrong, or maybe someone else has a better understanding on this or that point than me ----

but I have never gone into a review trying to distort the truth.

I have never gone into writing something knowing I didn't know enough, or worse that I was probably wrong on something, but wrote a strong opinion anyway.

Like with the latest video compliation Mike linked to I did --

I embedded it in a webpage.

That is the first or 2nd time I've done that after perhaps 25 to 50 videos I've done.

The reason ---- because I felt just putting up the images of the violent protest would give people unfamiliar with South Korean society the wrong idea about how strong the anti-Pyongtaek Expansion effort is ---

I wanted to point out how these protests fit in the society right now when Korea is afraid USFK might leave......

When I see someone who is clearly smart enough to know better --- I mean the person who wrote this crap article ------ go out of their way to distort the truth ---

I'd like to take a bamboo pole and bash them upside the head with it.

The real problem I have with many things written either on a blog, in a news paper article or on a news report. It is not with the writer but with the fact of the gullibility of the reader and many times the story is trying to play on the lack of knowledge or belief in an old story that was never really proved. Like the story of Big foot or the Yeti or how butter on the burn will prevent blisters.
In some cases there are some things that cause that to be believed. The reason so many people take the Da Vinci Code as Fact. There is a prolog talking about the valid existence of documents and pictures depicted but most people do not read the other part about it being a work of fiction.
Much of this happens when the Ugly American is discussed. Here that depiction of Americans is showered on all US Military. Is it true for some? Yes just like the other standard stereotype does not fit all people of a certain country neither does this.
It is funny how when presented with facts showing their point is not correct the first thing that is pointed out are some of the few cases when we did do something wrong. Lt Calley MeLie Massacre etc but they don't point out how American Solders support local orphans, or when they help in a local community. I remember some incidents when soldiers were in the rice fields helping a farmer out in Korea I forget why but it was in the Stars and Strips. I do believe that the Military has an "image" problem and they do not go out and make a concerted effort to fix it and dispel the stereo type being placed on us.

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