tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post114062654520289134..comments2023-11-03T09:36:22.100-04:00Comments on In From the Cold: It's Tempting to Say....George Smileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07049707648660651119noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post-1140921963616645402006-02-25T21:46:00.000-05:002006-02-25T21:46:00.000-05:00This is sad.Around the end of the Korean War the w...This is sad.<BR/><BR/>Around the end of the Korean War the wage per capita in S. Korea was approximately the same as in subsaharan Africa. Today it is higher than Britain's, while in N. Korea that number has stagnated. You do the math.<BR/><BR/>One thing about the Koreans is that they are very very nationalistic. It's fairly easy for the Norks to play that card and to drive a wedge between us and the South Koreans. It takes a more mature, more widely travelled sort of person to start to see they might have more in common with us.<BR/><BR/>But you know what? If S. Korea wants to be taken over by the Norks, wants to back them in a war, I say, more power to 'em. Let's just completely withdraw and let them have it. It stops competition for our businesses and it is appropriate that people reap what they sow. It is morally right.MeaninglessHotAirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11767916621253839341noreply@blogger.com