2006
Soap Box Archives
Korea
If you want to see the difference in capitalism and communism
you don't need to go any further than comparing South Korea
with North Korea.
North Korea is little more than a black hole where most of the
foliage has been cut down for heat and to cook what meager food
the long suffering people there can lay their hands on. Roots,
bark or whatever they can find
to add a few calories to their miserable existence.
Their leader is a foolish little man who has a complex about
being so short that he wears platform shoes and bouffant hair
do to make him appear taller. But it only has the effect of
making him look silly. But regardless of how ridiculous he looks
he is a dangerous, perhaps even demented, loose canon who rules
his pitiful nation with a cruel iron hand.
He and his cronies live in opulent decadence while the population
digs and scrapes for anything that will stave off their hunger
for a while.
Or the other side of the 38th parallel in Seoul things are buzzing.
Sixteen million people living in a beehive of activity with
forests of construction cranes on the horizons building high-rise
apartment buildings, many of them sold out before they're ever
topped out. To say it is a happening place would be a gross
understatement.
We still have quite a few troops scattered across the southern
half of the Korean peninsula and we went out and played five
of the bases.
Anytime I'm among the men and women who wear the uniform of
our nation I am humbled and honored by the degree of their sacrifice.
Young people who give up the very best years of their lives
to preserve our way of life and guarantee the safety of our
nation.
And nothing demonstrates the difference between freedom and
captivity better than North and South Korea.
Our service men and women realize the magnitude of the job they're
doing and they do it day in and day out, despite the old gas
bag politicians who are so far out of touch with who they are
and what they're doing that their
vicious comments are all the more asinine.
Communism has never and will never work as a form of government.
Every country that has ever tried it has failed its people miserably.
It takes away the incentive to accomplish and the pride of workmanship
and creates a race of paranoid sheep who have neither initiative
or ambition. More people have starved or otherwise been put
to death under communism than any other form of government in
the world.
The only thing South Korea and North Korea share is a common
name and until somebody takes down that silly looking dictator
Kim Jong l it's going to stay that way.
Pray for our troops.
What do you think?
God Bless America
Charlie Daniels
November 3, 2006
