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WHO WE ARE Chien Wen Kung graduated from Dartmouth College in 2004 and majored in History and English. He is currently a civil servant in Singapore. Someday, he hopes to pursue a PhD in History. John Stevenson graduated from Dartmouth College in 2005 with a BA in Government and War and Peace Studies. He is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He hopes to pursue a career in teaching and research. Kwame A. Holmes did not graduate from Dartmouth. However, after graduating from Florida A+M University in 2003, he began a doctorate in history at the University of Illinois--Urbana Champaign. Having moved to Chicago to write a dissertation on Black-Gay-Urban life in Washington D.C., he attached himself to the leg of John Stevenson and is thrilled to sporadically blog on the Dartmouth Observer. Feel free to email him comments, criticisms, spelling/grammar suggestions. BLOGS/WEBSITES WE READ The American Scene Arts & Letters Daily Agenda Gap Stephen Bainbridge Jack Balkin Becker and Posner Belgravia Dispatch Black Prof The Corner Demosthenes Daniel Drezner Five Rupees Free Dartmouth Galley Slaves Instapundit Mickey Kaus The Little Green Blog Left2Right Joe Malchow Josh Marshall OxBlog Bradford Plumer Political Theory Daily Info Andrew Samwick Right Reason Andrew Seal Andrew Sullivan Supreme Court Blog Tapped Tech Central Station UChicago Law Faculty Blog Volokh Conspiracy Washington Monthly Winds of Change Matthew Yglesias ARCHIVES BOOKS WE'RE READING CW's Books John's Books STUFF Site Feed    |
Friday, October 21, 2005
South Koreans Looking for Door Rumsfield apparently bristled when the South Koreans suggested that after fifty years it might be time to go. He retorted in the definition of spin: The Republic of Korea, an impoverished and devastated nation over a half-century ago, now has one of the world's most powerful economies and is an important democracy with a large and increasingly capable armed force." These changing circumstances make it important for South Korea to take on a greater share of the burden for its own defense, Rumsfield said, but Koreans should not dismiss the value of U.S. support." The United States of America has invested the lives of a great many Americans in helping the Republic of Korea to be free," he said in a joint appearance with South Korean Defense Minister Yoon Kwang-Ung. "We are a part of this alliance at the request of the Republic of Korea's government," he added.Right. So when someone asks you politely to leave their house, even if you fixed the broken windows, the front door, and installed the new lovely patio deck, do you respond: "Impoverish and broken I discovered you and your house, and now you are rich and well off. Do not diminish my labor and my work, I am here at your request"? Damned vampires; they always assume an invitation in for tea means until death do us part. That being said, we have reduced the number of troops from 37, 000 to 12, 500. By the end of the year, that number should be down by another 8,000. |