On Aug 3, 11:55 am, Robert Cohen <robtco...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> The Korean "police action" circa 1950--1953 is a precursor to U.S.
> involvement in French Indo China aka Vietnam.
>
> The two were controversial-hated meat-grinding conflicts, which also
> precipitated domestic political change fom Democrats to Republicans as
> presidents.
>
> Truman--->Eisenhower
>
> Johnson-->Nixon
>
> Circa 1950--1953, the U.S. atomic bomb was not used, and circa 1960 to
> circa 1975, the U.S. nuclear bomb wasn't appplied either.
>
> These were deemed "limited wars" that were resisters of the spreading
> of Communism, and resulted in mixed success (Korea) & non-success
> (Nam).
>
> The U.S. foreign policy from after WW II to the early 1990s may be
> theme- titled as against Stalinism-Maoism-Castro etal styles of
> "authoritarian communism"
>
> And my profoundly simplistic point is:
>
> In warfare, ****e happens such as the horrible deaths of innocent
> civilians whom are "in the way" or in a war front's proximity.
>
> In both the Iraq and Afghan war "quagmires," an extremely cold-blooded
> enemy thrives on the terroristic slaughtering of civilians: It's
> surely as loco (nutty) as their (apparent) dark ages social-economic
> agenda (apparently Tallibanism).
>
> Collateral (civilian) deaths are hereaby acknowledged 60 years later,
> however rationalized.
>
> Some 30,000 U.S. troops paid for by the United States are still over
> there.
>
> If and when a South Korean majority wants the U.S. to leave, the
> U.S.should exit.
>
> ...inside a ragged tent at the entrance of the
> park, some aging South Koreans gather daily to
> draw attention to their side of the conflict, a story
> of carnage not mentioned in South Korea=92s
> official histories or textbooks.
>
> =93When the napalm hit our village, many people were
> still sleeping in their homes,=94 said Lee Beom-ki, 76.
> =93Those who survived the flames ran to the tidal flats.
> We were trying to show the American pilots that we
> were civilians. But they strafed us, women
> and children.=94
>
> Village residents say dozens of civilians were killed.
>
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/world/asia/03korea.html?_r=3D1&hp&ore..=
..
>
So your saying they should ignore or conceal the deaths of unarmed
civilians that resulted not from the mistakes of a few soldiers but
from systematic aerial bombing and strafing?
Or were you responding to this quote;
=93History teaches us that we need an alliance, but that alliance should
be based on humanitarian principles.=94
> .
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