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Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, oh yes, the government always does the right thing...
by joelhaasnoot 16y ago
Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, oh yes, the government always does the right thing...
- Glide 16y agoAs korean american, I would love if you would qualify your statement about Korea.
- joelhaasnoot 16y agoWar is still war, there were deaths, veterans who weren't the same, etc etc. I'm a child of the 80s, so I can't say I remember the details, but war isn't always a pretty thing. Going by what Wikipedia says (yes, I know it's a single source), the US wasn't exactly smart about how it was handled leading up to the Korean war.
- jbm 16y agoAlthough none of us are enamored with North Korea, there was a fair share of atrocities that were committed by UN forces on the NK population and the South Korean government against communist sympathizers in their own country. The Wiki article goes into it in some detail. (No, it doesn't make it OK because "they were doing it".) (As an aside, I sometimes bitterly contemplate how many great Korean minds were lost in that war because of their personal politics)
- nir 16y agoIndeed, baby boomers have been famous for trusting the government. Especially on Vietnam.
- mseebach 16y agoBaby boomers were anti-establishment, right up until they became the establishment. That's where the "neo" in neocon comes from.
- nir 16y agoBaby boomers actually have little to do with Neocon ideology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#History_and_origins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#History_and_ori...