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On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:56:09 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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The question is whether we are actually accomplishing anything or are we
just prolonging a war for grand children to fight. We have been in Korea
for
almost 60 years and things are worse now than they were in 1953.

There is no relevant equivalency with VN, since that was was lost, and
we
left.

We have left S. Korea alone and only are there to ensure the North
doesn't
get overly aggressive. We've mostly succeeded.


We have only succeeded in maintaining the DMZ we established in
1953.The threat form the north is exponentially greater than it was 57
years ago.
It really does beg the question, what would have happened if we had
just let the north win.
Would communism have just collapsed like it has everywhere else where
we ignore it? We seem to prolong the system when we fight it. Once we
normalize relations the citizens start finding out what the rest of
the world is doing and bring change from within. Satellites, cell
phones and the internet seems to be a lot more powerful that guns and
bombs.

Are you seriously trying to make the argument that the S. Koreans would
have
better off if the North had won??

That's really outlandish.


I agree the growth of the south has been phenomenal but one nuke from
the north could tip that scale and that threat definitely exists.

Do you really think that's likely? Seems to me that the NKs would know they
would be committing suicide.