You said it was needed. You seem to be confused.

“So your Confucian link makes no sense.”

It doesn’t makes sense for you, but it makes all the sense for korean people, you see, that’s the problem, you simply don’t understand korean society yet open your mouth to say nonsense about things that you don’t understand. Think soldier … one day you will get used to ….

Regarding the Zaitun unit, why you just don’t be honest and assume that you mocked them, please no more word games, just be frank and act like a real soldier. Tell people what is in you mind.

You are acting like a two faced man.

The ROK Army never needed mom's approval to deploy to Iraq before. It is a new thing. Plus they sure didn't need mom's approval to deploy to Vietnam. So your Confucian link makes no sense.

Also as far as the making of toilets I clearly said that the ROK Army deserve better than being sent to Iraq to make toilets and the fact of the matter is that ROK Army officers agree with me as I have pointed out repeatedly.

As far as your claim that I show no respect unless ROK Army soldiers die and that I am against reconstruction activities is once again false:

The Kurdistan region is not in need of reconstruction because the area was free of sanctions and rule of Saddam Hussein. However, the place could use improved highways and bridges which Korea is especially adept at making. The improved infrastructure would improve transportation encouraging more trade and give the Koreans something that will stand for along time in the region that Koreans can be proud of. Plus I can personally vouch that the Kurdish people are really great people and deserve and will be extremely appreciative of the aid that Korea can provide them. The ROK military is highly professional and capable of conducting such reconstruction missions if they are allowed to.

From the very start I supported the Zaytun reconstruction mission. I just predicted they would do little meaningful because they would be mostly trapped on their base due to government orders and I was right. So take false outrage elsewhere.

Here we go:

Post title: Rok army finding plenty of recruits for overseas service if mom approve

“If the viability of an overseas military mission is contingent on what mom thinks about it, maybe your military shouldn’t be there in the first place?”

Didn’t occur you that as a Confucian society Koreans believe that one’s life is bound to family decision, so for ROK army it was an important condition to select the applicants, since the soldiers would be sent to war zone? For someone who brag having served in Korea for so long and married to a Korean woman, you should be familiar to this concept. Now Koreans has a respectable military tradition that dates to centuries or millenniums and you mock them calling them “mama boys”? As Jaehyon Kim Said: “if anybody thinks our peacekeeping duties were a little docile, you ask any Vietnam vet what those ROK troopers are capable of….”

Post title: The Zaytun unit’s great reconstruction project

“Yes that is right folks the Zaytun unit is going to install toilets and teach people not wipe their ass with their left hands! So years from now when a thriving democratic Iraq holds a commemoration ceremony to thank the coalition countries for helping free Iraq, they will thank countries like America, Britain, Australia, Poland, etc. for shedding blood, sweat, and tears to free the Iraqi people and when they get to recognizing Korea’s contributions to freeing and rebuilding the country, they will thank the Koreans for introducing the wonders of toilet paper to them. The ROK Army deserves better than this.”

Even the USA army acknowledges the success of Korean PKO operation around the world, yet you insist to label ROK army as “toilet army” despite of its successful job in Iraq.

People in Iraq already knew how to “wipe their ass” before Korean soldiers came to Iraq, but the problem was that after “wiping their ass” their ….. got spread around the city causing serious sanitation and hygiene problem. I presume that you already know what happens if this kind of problems are not solved.

Soldiers are trained to save life by fighting, but sometimes you can save life without firing guns or blowing out towns. Have you ever installed toilets in a war zone? Can you imagine the smell? And the vision of all those human “products”? I wonder if you, as a proud soldier of the world’s most powerful army, would have done the same.

Post Title: Deceased ROK army soldier to receive US bronze Star

“It is disgusting to me that instead of honoring SGT Yoon’s death as the hero that he is, the Hankyoreh is using his death to push their own political agenda, but I’m not surprised.”

Post Title: Suicide bomber kills Korean servicemember in Afghanistan

“I really have nothing but the up most respect for SGT Yoon.”

“It just goes to show that no matter how bad the US-ROK alliance may appear to be politically, it doesn’t effect the relationship militarily between the US & ROK armies, as is shown with US and Korean soldiers dying together in Afghanistan. I have always found soldiers from the ROK Army to be some of the best soldiers from a foreign military I have ever served with.”

A soldier had to die in order for you GI show some respect to Korean army and soldiers. Now how much more casualties we need to show you to have your respect?

I can show you more examples if you want.

http://rokdrop.com/2004/10/12/what-korea-can-lear…

Also I have no doubt ROK soldiers can perform well, I have worked with the ROK Army long enough to know this, however all that doesn't matter if the ROK government doesn't allow the soldiers to do anything. That is why ROK officers in the past have voiced their frustration with the mission:

http://rokdrop.com/2008/09/23/rok-army-to-complet…

I have also repeatedly stated one of the reasons I didn't want ROK soldiers in Iraq was because a mass casualty attack would lead to anti-US protests in Korea.

Agree with you.

In my opinion GI will only show some sign of respect to Korean soldiers when we suffer high casualties in the war. No casualties or small casualties will jot qualify Korean Army to GI’s list of “serious” armies.