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I'll ask the Bosnians, or the Koreans what they think.... We do ourselves a disservice to pretend that every intervention has been a massive failure or worse.

I'll ask the Bosnians, or the Koreans what they think.... We do ourselves a disservice to pretend that every intervention has been a massive failure or worse. It abdicates the specific responsibility of those waging specific wars and invites us to ignore international tragedy.

x86_64Ubuntu 6y ago
Citing any WWII action is dubious at best. And South Korea was a dictatorship in the time afterwards so not exactly a paragon of freedom. If your argument hinges on the Kosovo air war as proof that the US war intervention isn't a default failure, then you've already lost the argument.
- refurb 6y ago
  If your standard is perfection you’ll always be disappointed. Suffice to say that both Taiwan and South Korea would not be leading democracies in Asia without US intervention. Yes, both were dictatorships initially. Are you arguing it would be better if North Korea were running the whole peninsula? And China controlled Taiwan?