Re: Korea, was Re: Fascist Censorship Spreads: Vichy Style

2004-08-29 Thread Damon Agretto
> Is the portraiment of the US intervention in Korea
> correct that 
> basically the intervention served to prevent the
> corrupt unpopular 
> capitalist government from being replaced by an
> elected more popular 
> communist government in the midst of the cold war?

I think you're thinking of Vietnam.

Damon.


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Korea, was Re: Fascist Censorship Spreads: Vichy Style

2004-08-29 Thread Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten
JDG wrote:
At 08:35 AM 8/28/2004 +0100 Richard Baker wrote:
 

JDG said:
   

Or how about being passive in the decades of sufferings of Iraqis
under Saddam Hussein?
 

Or during the decades of suffering of North Koreans under Communism?
   

The US sent millions to that corner of the world, so I would hardly call
our actions "passive."
Funny, but I don't see a great many French troops stationed on the DMZ.
 

Is the portraiment of the US intervention in Korea correct that 
basically the intervention served to prevent the corrupt unpopular 
capitalist government from being replaced by an elected more popular 
communist government in the midst of the cold war?

Sonja
GCU: Clueless
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