By GI Korea on September 19th, 2010 at 4:01 am

ROK Drop Open Thread – September 19, 2010

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Here is an Open Thread for everyone to leave story links or discuss things I haven’t posted on. By the way here is yet another inflammatory cartoon from the Korea Times:

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Tom
11:27 pm on September 18th, 2010 1
You just had a story where GI's kill Afghans for fun.

So why is this inflammatory? It's pretty accurate.
ChickenHead
1:06 am on September 19th, 2010 2
Tom,

"So why is this inflammatory? It’s pretty accurate."

Don't be a dumbass. It's not accurate at all.

It's inflammatory because it brings up the suggestion that we are at war with a generally peaceful religion…

…which runs counter to the values of our well-adjusted, modern, first-world, tolerant and multicultural society.

The fact is, we don't attack innocent people for their religion, we attack terrorists, insurgents and their supporters, who hate us for our freedoms.

And this is something we have been successfully doing for a long time.

Islam has nothing to do with our attacks.

Technically, NOT SAFE FOR WORK.

http://www.virginmedia.com/images/iconic_vietnam-…
Mark
5:05 am on September 19th, 2010 3
The shepherd in the cartoon had better not be Mohammed, or the joke will be on Korea.
Tom
9:55 am on September 19th, 2010 4
Like I said, tip of the iceberg.

"Gibbs, whom some defendants have described as the ringleader, confided to his new mates that it had been easy for him to get away with "stuff" when he served in Iraq in 2004, according to the statements."

Members of U.S. platoon in Afghanistan accused of killing civilians for sport

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti…
Zilchy
7:36 pm on September 19th, 2010 5
@#4 Tom

I was hoping the "Kack" master was going to slap some sense into you, but I'm OK with the task.

You are truly the consumate Minjok Mental Midget. You can't be serious with your post. Isolated incidents such as these are par for the course and unfortunate. Statistically, you're going to have events such as these.

Statistically, you're going to have Koreans outside of their country setting up "massage parlors" as a form of "legitimate business". I guess this reality is "just the tip of the iceberg"!

Are you a complete JACKASS by genetics, upbringing, or have you been striving to reach this level of incompetance?
Pete
9:04 pm on September 19th, 2010 6
"Technically, NOT SAFE FOR WORK."

The A/C that dropped the napalm that burned the girlm (now a woman living in the US making quiet a few bucks on her situation as a young girl)was flown by one of her fellow countrymen, not by an American as the media has led us to believe.

(However, the bomb was probably produced in the US)
Pete
9:39 pm on September 19th, 2010 7
I don't normally post long but what a lie Beverly Flanigan has written, but the sad part is this story was published in a religious newspaper.

Beverly Flanigan –

…John Plummer is a Methodist pastor living in a quiet town in Virginia. …John Plummer is also the pilot that, during the Vietnam War, organized the Napalm raid on the village of Trang Bang in 1972. … … For twenty- four years he looked for her, trying everything he could just so that he could tell her that he had not meant this dreadful thing. It was more than wanting. It was a need that ate away at him until he lost his wife and his health and his hope.

… John, along with a group of fellow pilots, had traveled to the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C. …

The crowd gathered at the memorial hushed as a small woman took the stage and spoke into the microphone and said “I am Phan Thi Kim Phuc, the girl made famous by a photograph after suffering a Napalm attack by American forces”

John froze. He could not take it in. For twenty- four years he had longed for her and she was now so near. Her voice continued ” I am not bitter, even though the burns I suffered even to this day cause me pain. I long ago forgave the one who bombed our village”

John was beside himself, yelling, pushing his way through the crowd. Security surrounded him but he persisted. “I am the one!” he shouted “I am the man who did this to you!” She came down from the stage, the only one who could free him and he fell into her arms. For every time he sobbed out ” I am so sorry” her voice rose to cover his. “It is OK. I have forgiven you”.

…:

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Tom
10:05 pm on September 19th, 2010 8
"Statistically, you’re going to have Koreans outside of their country setting up “massage parlors” as a form of “legitimate business”. I guess this reality is “just the tip of the iceberg”!"

But with one huge difference. Koreans outside of their country setting aren't making up phony messages about democracy for all, freedom from tyranny, fighting against terrorism, and other horse shit. If you're going to take the moral high horse standing by lecturing others and starting up wars abroad based on it, you better really have high morals yourself. But it looks like you're not really any better than the Talibans.