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To: Brumar89 who wrote (106820)	7/21/2003 12:02:41 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

One of the things North Korea would like is an American pullout of Korea. Sure it is.. and it's something I'm willing to see negotiated IN CONJUNCTION with other nations in the region.. How long would it take to have 37,000 US forces immediately air-lifted and deployed to S. Korea anyway?.. A week at most (if commercial airlift is utilized). S. Korea can be responsible to maintaining and storing the equipment any such reinforcements would "marry up" with once on the ground. And there's nothing to exclude US forces deploying temporarily, as we did in REFORGER exercises, to test our ability to rapidly reinforce the Korean peninsula. It also provides the US the flexibility to use those forces in other operations, including an amphibious assault into N. Korea, as a response to any N. Korean invasion. This provides major flexibility in any US response, and forces Kim Jong Il to "guard his flanks". And what's funny is that Iran also was listed on the "axis of evil" list, yet GST isn't demanding that the US immediately and unilaterally circumvent the multi-lateral effort being made to bring them into compliance with their obligations. He's looking to hype the N. Korean issue, not out of genuine concern for US security, but merely to force the Bush administration to adopt a bankrupt approach that the previous administration achieved no success with. Hawk