They know not of what they speak...

Liberalism/socialism has reared its ugly head, to the point where it is now poised to take over a nation we shed blood to liberate...

From here:

Nearly half of South Korean youths who will be old enough to vote in the country's next elections say Seoul should side with North Korea if the United States attacks the communist nation, according to a poll released Wednesday.

At the same time, 40.7 percent of the 1,000 young people surveyed said Seoul should remain neutral in the event of hostilities between Washington and Pyongyang, according to the poll by The Korea Times and Hankook Ilbo dailies. Only 11.6 percent said the South should back its longtime U.S. ally.

The poll, conducted Feb. 16-19, surveyed youths between 17 and 23 years old who will be old enough to vote in next year's presidential election. The margin of error was plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.

I'll bet you anything that North Korea has a pretty strong propaganda machine working in South Korea's institutions of "higher learning." The cohort of youngsters now in South Korean colleges are too young to know the ravages that communism has exacted on its northern neighbor, and the threat that it continues to pose to the south.

This satellite picture of the Korean peninsula, taken at night, should be plastered on the dorm walls of every South Korean college, and every teenager's bedroom. It is quite indicative of the pall that is cast by this insidious form of government that has been nothing short of a plague to humanity, and why communism must be defeated at all costs for freedom to survive.

As Ronald Reagan so eloquently stated,

"Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again."

The South Korean youth would do well to acquaint themselves well with these words, as would our own youth.

South Korea is a textbook study of the successful use of tactics by the communist left to push their agenda, not through force of arms, but by indoctrination of a nation's youth. It behooves us to remember that lesson as similar tactics are practiced by the left in our own country in this very day.


(Filed under world affairs, the fifth column)