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comparing what's going on in Afghanistan to the Korean Peninsula and how the American forces helped South Korea become a prosperous country make me think the US
by msoad 5y ago
comparing what's going on in Afghanistan to the Korean Peninsula and how the American forces helped South Korea become a prosperous country make me think the US has lost its core values about its role in the international scene.
- dtwest 5y agoAfghanistan and Korea are vastly different scenarios, perhaps the main difference is the situation the US put themselves in rather than a change of core values.
- tootie 5y agoYeah and Vietnam is why. Really, America as the world police was a pretty short-lived experiment. We had to be dragged in to WWII. We mostly sat out the Maoist revolution even though we did have a presence in China at the time. Korea ended up being politically fraught and the public just didn't have their heart in it. No one wanted to help a backwater Asian country. It's hard to sell a 70-year investment to help them become a first-world democracy when the outcome isn't guaranteed. Vietnam really broke a lot of people's spirits to the point that we carefully avoided nation building in the 1991 Gulf War. Our biggest success since Korea was the Balkan Wars which just aren't prominent in the public consciousness for some reason.
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoDefinately 'statebuilding' has succeded before and totally failed in afganistan But its not just about guns - the key difference is that south korea has recieved more financial aid than all of africa combined. Thats is probably thr key difference
- randomopining 5y agoThey are quite possibly 100% different scenarios. Your oversimplification is ridic lol.