The now part:

The two military members were acquitted in their courts martial this past week.

There's a great deal of animosity in S. Korea about this, I understand, even though it was as the press indicated pretty much an accident. Regrettable, of course, but on the other hand, as was pointed out, we bled a lot for the South Koreans and their gratitude can be underwhelming at times.

I thnk part of the problem may well be that deep down inside the people below the 38th parallel understand that were it not for our 35,000 or so troops in the country they would have been at great risk of having been overrun some time in the last 50 years. It's only the presence of our military, whom the North Koreans will not annihilate because they know the true might behind them, that keeps the South relatively safe.

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