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Friday, July 07, 2006
Rich Galen :: Townhall.com Columnist
Appeasement
by Rich Galen
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  • If they have them. They are going to use them.

  • Reuters reported Wednesday that Venezuela President Hugo Chavez showed off the "Russian fighter jets his government is planning to buy…"

  • If he has them. He's going to use them.

  • Iran and nuclear weapons? Same thing.

  • We are now just about four months away from the mid-term elections in the US. Every politician running for office will be attempting to calibrate a response to these events.

  • Listen carefully to the Members of Congress and Senators running in your area. History has proven that politicians who clamor for appeasement are, sooner or later, proven wrong.

  • And the cost of their mistakes is, always much, much higher than the price they were trying to avoid in the first place.

  • On the Secret Decoder Ring Page today: Links to the BBC, PBS, and the LA Times; a Mullfoto-Traveler's-Tip; and a Catchy Caption of the Day.

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    Rich Galen has been a press secretary to Dan Quayle and Newt Gingrich. Rich Galen currently works as a journalist and writes at Mullings.com

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    Reply # 1
    Date: Jul 8, 2006 - 12:33 PM EST
    My Visit
    In January 2005 I stood on the DMZ and was briefed by a military briefer on the current situation there. Here are the facts--North Korea has 22 million people living in or near poverty, they have a GNP about 1/1000 of South Korea's. South Korea has 48 million people and Seoul is the 2nd most expensive city on the planet. South Korea is under constant construction, buildings, bridges, and interstate highways-large construction cranes are in evidence everywhere. The South Korean economy is on fire, their cars are taking market share away from Japan, and their food took all the taste buds off my tongue(a little levity). My point--we are not needed there, we are wasting money there, South Korea has all it needs to defend itself, except resolve. South Korea has the money and technology to develop a military machine that would render North Korea ineffective and if developed, probably would end the North Korean adventurism. South Korea is hiding behind a US presence that cannot stop North Korea without using nuclear weapons and our Army has none. Our Air Force may have a few on the peninsula but they would probably be over run before a decision could or would be made to use them. We should leave enmass and make South Korea defend themselves or perish.
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    Reply # 2
    Date: Jul 8, 2006 - 1:15 AM EST
    North Korea's A Tough Nut
    Which of course, is why they're still there. For all the talk of nukes and missiles, the real reason that North Korea can do what it does lies in the thousands of conventional artillery pieces in hardened sites situated on the DMZ within easy range of Seoul. Any military action would result in that artillery opening fire on the city resulting in hundreds of thousands if not millions of civilian deaths.

    That's quite a deterrent. Those sites are mostly impervious to normal bombing and even a bunker buster nuke would probably not eliminate all of them. This is something that colors the actions of both the U.S and South Korea.

    Kim Il Nutcase had us by the short hairs long before the development of nukes, and he knew it. The question is how to counter him without causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians. We care. He doesn’t. That is his strength.
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