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STING2 said:Well you simply list several weapons systems purchase without putting that into any CONTEXT! If you want a rundown of the military balance on the Korean Penisula I can give you that! I can also give you a similar run down of Chinese military forces in close proximity to the region. Only when you see these weapons purchase's in light of the threat that they face can you begin to understand why Korea has such need for weapons and why it is important that US troops remained stationed in South Korea. My Father over the course of a 30 year military career served to full year asignments in South Korea! My best friend, A Cobra Helicopter Pilot in the US Marine Corp was in South Korea this last spring.
These corporations that make this US equipment are vital to the lives of are men and women in the armed forces. This technology helps them to win wars quickly and with minimum loss of life! I have several friends who are engineers and who work for several different Corporations that build weapons for the United States and our allies. Their work and what they produce are a vital part of international security!
Again, I'd be happy to post the military balance, listing the equipment holdings and dispostion of military units on the Korean Penisula and similar data on China if you want to understand the context under which we supply these weapons to South Korea!
Yes, if you want to, post. It is clear to everyone anyway that not only the U.S. is producing weapons or training military forces. Russia, China, North Korea... (apart from Great Britian, France, Germany, Italy,...) the question is do you think that China and North Korea would bomb a region in East Asia to force down an excessive expansion policy?
I can also understand that the U.S. equipment protects the lives of the armed forces. Sure, weapons have a certain use (if not no one would buy them). And you can always argue that the "enemy" has the same kind of weapons (nearly) . Nevertheless, weapons are generally not a product like, say, oranges, or papers, or cars, or cd?s. Weapons kill, hurt, create incredible pain around the world. Then, weapons are often sold illegally, and often get into hands that shouldn?t even get near to arms. If that wasn?t enough, they are used by organised crime all over the world in weapons-against-drugs-deals. I would go as far as saying, if you add every positive and negative effect that weapons have had through history, the negative effects do have a huge overweight.
I know that by a soldier who works for his country things may be seen differently; another kind of logical system, which is the same straightforward like my logical system. What I wanted to point out apart from that, is that South Korea actually seems well equipped so I doubt that in this region a war is going to explode, if the U.S. or China don?t provoke it because of national interests. Now, China... I don?t know... haven?t heard of nothing from China... any evil there?