Actually, South Korea paid close to 900 million dollars for the U.S. bases last year.
Quote from: Hellspawn28 on Aug 23, 2015, 07:14:28 PM
With South Korea, they have no choice to help but stuff like ISIS we are better off not fighting against. I think it was better when America would stay out of other countries problems. When the Ottoman Empire was doing horrible things to Armenia or when Germany attack Poland, the US never bother with it. Why risk so much money and other soldiers lives for a war or fighting other people's battles that may not solve anything. We should let other countries solve their own problems and make their own decisions.
After WWI (and before it), the US wanted to stay out, but couldn't because the war came to the country. Since then, the US became the world police. Even if we pull out, I think there'll come a time when we won't be able to avoid another attack because the balance of powers would eventually become unstable again.
Quote from: Gate on Aug 20, 2015, 01:29:39 PM
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/20/us-northkorea-southkorea-artillery-idUSKCN0QP0RO20150820
QuoteSouth Korea fired tens of artillery rounds toward North Korea on Thursday after the North launched shells to protest South Korea's anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts along the border, as tension escalated on the peninsula.
North Korea did not return fire but later warned Seoul in a letter that it would take military action if the South did not stop the loudspeaker broadcasts within 48 hours, the South's defense ministry said.
In a separate letter, Pyongyang said it was willing to offer an opening to resolve the conflict even though it considers the broadcasts a declaration of war, South Korea's Unification Ministry said.
A South Korean military official said the broadcasts, which began on Aug. 10, would continue.
http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/539644405494556317/47C2F86059C34ABA50098707C2A959F1E3327B08/
The loudspeaker broadcasts began in reaction to the North Korean soldiers who planted mines in the South Korean side of the border. Two South Korean soldiers got hurt badly from it.
Quote from: Hubbs on Aug 22, 2015, 03:40:49 AM
And America thinks it has migrant issues. Europe reaches melting point with migrant crisis.
I think Europe and the new migrants will learn to coexist as Europeans. It could take a long time, maybe even generations.
There are many people who forget that there really isn't a majority in ethnicity in the US because they tend to think in terms of race. (I'm not saying that you think that way). When we consider ethnicity, the British descendants are actually the minority. In fact, they rank fourth after the German-Americans, the Irish-Americans, and the African-Americans. And neither of them make up the majority. These minorities were treated badly in the past, such as the African-Americans who were slaves. Irish immigrants were recruited to the Union army as soon as they arrived during the American Civil War. This resulted in the biggest riots in American history, an uprising to be exact, in New York City. The German-Americans were looked upon in suspicion during WWI. And they weren't the only immigrants who faced hardships in America. There were many times when tensions between different ethnicities became violent. And yet, their descendants are considered as Americans now.
It's a tragedy what happened to the Native Americans in the past. I don't think the same will happen in Europe because (a) the Europeans won't suffer a plague from the new migrants and (b) there'll be more than enough Europeans to not go the same fate as the Native Americans did.
