As the saber-rattling increases on the Korean peninsula, 47% of U.S. voters think the United States should provide military assistance to South Korea if it is attacked by its communist neighbor to the north. A new Rasmussen Reports National Telephone Survey finds that only 25% oppose U.S. Military assistance to South Korea if it is attacked by North Korea. But another 28% are undecided.
These findings are little changed from a year ago when tensions between the two countries last heightened. The United States now has roughly 30,000 military personnel stationed in South Korea, mostly U.S. Army troops. Tensions have been mounting in recent days over charges that North Korea sank a South Korean Naval vessel, and the Obama administration is pushing for United Nations action against North Korea.
However, U.S. voters have little confidence that the United Nations will take effective action against North Korea. That wouldn’t be anything new. This world body that was envisioned as a place where nations could resolve differences peacefully has failed to do much of that. When the U.N. set up the security council so any member could veto a proposal, it effectively made that council useless.
Has the U.N. done anything to advance peace in any conflict in the world? The U.S. has accomplished much more with our many efforts to rebuild enemies we’ve defeated in war. We have done that because the American people have been good hearted instead of vindictive. Can that be credited to the Judeo-Christian foundation our founders built for our nation?
This is Carl Ramsey and that’s Another View of the News.
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