Fwd: US Blamed for 2000 Korean Student Deaths in 1980

[Brad De Long]

>Doug writes:
>[Via Michael Eisenscher. Hey, Tim Shorrock - your name appears in 
>here. Tell us more, if you can.]
>
>Shorrock replies:
>
>The Kwangju story is worth remembering when we think about the 
>increasingly shrill debate about China PNTR. We now have the AFL-CIO 
>lobbying hand in hand with the American Legion, arguing quite 
>forcefully that US ground forces in Asia (most of which are in South 
>Korea and Okinawa) are key to US national security and the US 
>defense posture against the 'rogue nation' China. I find this 
>argument repellent. Is US labor now going to lead the rightwing 
>charge to maintain US military bases in Asia for another 50 years 
>without even a whimper of dissent from within its ranks? I sure hope 
>not.
>Tim Shorrock
>

Surely U.S. forces are worth maintaining in South Korea as long as 
North Korea is ruled by, in Eric Hobsbawm's phrase, "totalitarian 
megalomaniacs"?

Brad DeLong