NOT ALL KOREANS THINK MACARTHUR A ‘WAR CRIMINAL’
by Richardson ~ September 18th, 2005. Filed under: Anti-Americanism.I had not been covering the MacArthur statue controversy as it has been well covered here and here. However, this JoongAng Ilbo editorial deserves some attention for frankly stating what many Americans feel:
We are concerned that a few opposition groups advocating the removal of U.S. General Douglas MacArthur’s statue from Incheon’s Freedom Park… These people seem to think that the world is theirs to rule… They claim that General MacArthur is a warmonger, a symbol of imperialism and a “head of the occupation forces” … Shouldn’t the “warmonger” be Kim Il Sung, who attacked the South? And isn’t the “Imperialist” the former Soviet Union, the country that secretly supported Kim Il Sung? General MacArthur only led a war to end the provocation by communist imperialist forces. Why is it that these people mouth such strange logic? … General MacArthur is the man who saved our country in the Korean War through his success in the Incheon landings, which turned the tide of the war. Moreover, his statue is a symbolic memorial of the struggle to protect the precious democracy that we enjoy today. [emphasis added]
Read the rest here.
