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Arguably, the US doesn't quite have the moral high ground in Asia...
by CapacitorSet 7y ago
Arguably, the US doesn't quite have the moral high ground in Asia...
- refurb 7y agoIn the 1950's? Do tell.
- russdill 7y agoA lot of people were displeased with the way the Korea was divided at the end of WWII. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Order_No._1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Order_No._1 The Soviets had declared war on Japan 9 days prior and were allowed control of half of Korea.
- refurb 7y agoHow does impact if the US has the moral high ground? If anything, the reason South Korea isn’t entirely a communist dictatorship is because of the US soldiers who died there defending it (amount a number of other western countries).
- russdill 7y agoThe view is that Korea could be one united country and the war entirely avoided if the US had not capitulated to the Soviet demands. US soldiers did die defending South Korea from the North Korean and Chinese invasion, and that is admirable, but don't forget that far more Koreans have died and continue to die.