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

 

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