Comments on: Taliban Kidnapping Leader Killed http://rokdrop.com/2007/09/20/taliban-kidnapping-leader-killed/ Serving on the Forgotten Frontier Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:25:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Knickerbocker http://rokdrop.com/2007/09/20/taliban-kidnapping-leader-killed/#comment-75642 Knickerbocker Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:40:45 +0000 http://rokdrop.com/2007/09/20/taliban-kidnapping-leader-killed/#comment-75642 Excellent point. A heroic Korean-led rescue mission, or at least counterstrike after the release of the prisoners would've had tremendous symbolic value. So not only is leadership in Seoul clueless, but it turns out they're also spineless. Weak and stupid as commander-in-chief. How's that for reassuring? Here's an op-ed that covers some of this and suggests that Korea walk away from its "pact with the devil:" http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/17/news/edkim.php Excellent point. A heroic Korean-led rescue mission, or at least counterstrike after the release of the prisoners would’ve had tremendous symbolic value. So not only is leadership in Seoul clueless, but it turns out they’re also spineless. Weak and stupid as commander-in-chief. How’s that for reassuring?

Here’s an op-ed that covers some of this and suggests that Korea walk away from its “pact with the devil:”

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/17/news/edkim.php

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