Hey, South Korea...

Quit blaming us, quit expecting us to do your job, try rescuing your people, and try pitching in to help fight the Taliban. Apparently, it’s much easier to a) demand that the Afghans give in to terrorist demands, and b) criticize the U.S. for not taking responsibility (as if we had anything to do with making the missionaries enter Afghanistan) and for not forcing the Afghans to give in to terrorists. As I write in my column today, it’s just another case of the U.S. expected to be Rambo:

“In the upcoming fourth installment of the ‘Rambo’ franchise, Sylvester Stallone is shacked up in Bangkok when a group of Christian missionaries comes through, wanting to use his boat to get to Burma. ‘Burma’s a war zone,’ John Rambo lectures them in his signature warble. He initially refuses, the missionaries chide him for being insensitive, and he later relents under pressure, taking the lot up the river.

As expected, the missionaries fall victim to the bad guys (evidently Burmese villains are still acceptable onscreen), and endure torture and whatnot. And who’s expected to save them? Why, the guy who warned them it was so dangerous in the first place. No Jimmy Carter-style negotiations here - Rambo punches off heads and rips out throats as he saves the day in the trailer that’s already become an Internet classic.

Watching the latest hostage crisis in Afghanistan reminds us how much the U.S. is the world’s Rambo - criticized for being too militaristic, but inevitably expected to do the dirty work…”

Read the whole thing!

And here's that Rambo trailer, already a cult classic in the Daily News sports department (and it's violent, so don't say I didn't warn ya):