Recognizing the Willing
Chrenkoff’s blog has a nice run down of the coalition of the willing in Iraq which includes Korea’s Zaytun unit pictured below:
Here are my favorite coalition of the willing troops in Iraq:
The last time Mongolian soldiers marched in Iraq was 1258. They burned down Baghdad and slaughtered nearly everyone. Baghdad was once the center of learning and culture and has never recovered from the Mongolian sacking of the city. Now Mongolia has 173 soldiers of the 150th Elite Peacekeeping Battalion in Hillah, Iraq. Hillah is actually a much more dangerous area in Iraq than where the Korean soldiers are at. Actually there are many smaller countries in the coalition conducting active patroling in some very dangerous areas. See the linked blog for more info.
Finally is it just me or do the Mongolian soldiers look an awful lot like Koreans?
In 13th century, Korea had been a dog of Mongolia, Yuen dinasty. I suppose, Korea seems still a dog in their spirits.
Not only do they look an awful lot like Koreans, but they also traffic counterfeit $100 bills, drugs, and women for the sex trade, which means they also act an awful lot like Koreans!