2seaoat wrote:The courage of those soldiers. The incredible hardship of those who believed they were fighting a monolithic threat to America. In fact, North Korea had invaded south Korea. So, if you watched the video, those sacrifices even years after the same were justified by the idea that their sacrifices allowed a free South Korea. I often ask myself, what rationalization takes place with a soldier who has sacrificed a limb or body part in Iraq? It cannot be the myth of fighting terror. I guess it must be that Sadham was a bad guy, and we freed the Iraq people from his dictatorship. However, even the most twisted logic cannot support such nonsense.
The Korean war was where America transformed. It was where the permanent military presence in our society became the rule. Now we have the same arrogance against North Korea that we mistakenly made in Korea in 1950. I do not see a path to sanity anymore. MIC has captured the American spirit to think that perpetual war and America as the world's policeman is our role. Mic profits. Innocents die......and this nation meanders away from the principles of freedom and liberty. Any attempt to protest is futile. We have built this horrible war machine where profits and capitalistic greed brings terror on the world.
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
bertrand_russell
There's a big flaw in your argument about the relative sacrifice of soldiers during the Korean War and the Iraq War. In the Korean War, the Army included 1.8 million draftees. In the Iraq War, ALL the soldiers were volunteers!
And you can quit whinging about America being the "world's policeman". Ask yourself where you would rather have lived during the Cold War: East Germany or West Germany, Moscow or Manhattan? Where would you rather live today: North Korea or South Korea?
The US became the de facto "world's policeman" at the end of the Second World War and thank frigging God! Would you have preferred that nobody held the line against Soviet totalitarian hegemony? Without the US acting as the "world's policeman", Eastern Europe would still be suffering under the heel of Soviet oppression.
Do you have any idea how bad daily life was for most of the citizens of Eastern Europe during the Soviet regime? Ask any of them today if they resent the US being the "world's policeman". Ask any of the citizens of western Ukraine today if they resent the US acting as the "world"s policeman".
With the US acting as the "world's policeman", for 70 years we've managed to avoid a reprise of the disastrous first-half of the Twentieth Century, perhaps the bloodiest half-century in human history. Thank God for the Pax Americana. To paraphrase Churchill, having the US as the "world's policeman" is the worst possible situation, except for all the others.
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