Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > Just off the top-of-my-head, I can think of the entire Panama campaign and many > smaller compaigns in Korea and Vietnam which did _not_ follow this format. Do > you have any idea of what the civilian toll was in Korea and Vietnam? Don't > think that they just got in the way by accident, many were killed by both sides > either for "strategic" reasons or simply for the hell of it. Quite a few of > these incidents have been well documented, and many Koreans have taken the US > military to court (in the US) over issues such as this. > > What about places like Chile, where the US funded a bloody coup and then > supported the establishment of a brutal dictatorship? > > It aint that simple. It almost never is. War is hell. Just taking the Korean referral for an example here, and by all means correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't ---> United Nation <--- forces enter the Korean war because NORTH Korea attacked S. Korea? Were we not there, along with UN forces, defending an innocent country? Just like Kuwait...(although I don't think the UN was involved there). -- /\ Dark><Lord \/
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