You can always count on President Roh to provide blogging material. Now President Roh is complaining about pro-American Koreans.

In a talk with Korean residents here during a three-day stay in Turkey, President Roh Moo-hyun has worried aloud that his countrymen approached issues involving the South Korea-U.S. alliance too much from an American point of view.
Without giving examples, Mr. Roh complained Saturday that some Koreans are too what he called pro-American when they discuss relations between Seoul and Washington.
“I am most concerned and feel troubled when I see that there are Koreans who possess a more pro-American way of thinking than Americans themselves,” the president said.

President Roh is trying to increase his approval rating before the elections by pulling out the good old Korean nationalism card. He makes it sound like if you favor the US policy you are against the Korean people. Will people keep falling for this crap?

However his remarks about some Koreans being more pro-American than Americans reminded me of a Polish military friend of mine I trained with in the states. He told me the biggest surprise he had coming to America was learning how much Americans hate their own country and how much the Polish love America. With such a comfortable life in America he was shocked by the anti-Americanism. He thinks the Polish love America more than many Americans. Keep in mind this was before the 2004 Presidential election when the Democrats were on TV every day complaining about how bad America was which he watched every day. So this may have influenced his opinion. Who knows, maybe we can exchange some of the anti-American Americans for pro-American Koreans and Poles?