I was wondering too what that Long List of Jumble had to do with the Issue at hand!

How is it that the Korean War escaped the protests which surrounded the war in
Vietnam? Everything we've come to love and cherish about Vietnam had its forerunner
in Korea: the support of a corrupt tyranny, the atrocities, the napalm, the mass slaughter
of civilians, the cities and villages laid to waste, the calculated management of the news,
the sabotaging of peace talks. But the American people were convinced that the war in
Korea was an unambiguous case of one country invading another without provocation.

It was a result of continued assaults by North Korea upon South Korea that didn't wish Monarchy rule. The country of Korea was already in a war within itself. A war of independence. North Korea relinquished its hold upon South Korea through peace talks. Although, North Korea still threatens South Korea to this day.

And this just in .......

http://news.xin.msn.com/en/regional/article.aspx?cp-documentid=5902457

Bull,Vietnam-War started by France,who wouldn't let go of French Indochina!
Remember Dien Bien Phu?
French Foreign Legion-Battle!
And you're WAYYYYY off on Korea!

You really got to stop playing loose and fast with History!

I wonder what Korea you're talking about!

North Korea invaded South Korea on the June 25, 1950..

The UN demanded they withdraw and when they didn't the UN backed coalition went in to defend the South..

The winner!! And done in one simple sentence and one compound sentence...Way to go Invictus!!!

I would suggest you all Take the matter up with William Blum because I have another 54 interventions to get through

Billy Blum!
Of Controlled Demolition-Fame!


They should have hanged him and Phil Agee!

Two Pieces of Fertilizer!

What an expert you choose to follow?? A student of accounting holding a low-level computer position......if those are the experts you count upon for you information and justifications of statements no wonder you post what you do......all i have to say is WOW!!!

http://www.korean-war.com/

Try this instead....

Americans have seem to have forgotten that FDR wanted America to get involved in the war.He held back for awhile because most of Americans didn't want to get involved in another war.Then when a shipment boat going over to England with supplies was sunk FDR seen opportunity and sent our troops into the european war.Remember Pearl Harbor happened after we got involved in the European war.

Plus Russia single handedly defeated Germans in Russia and had their own blitzkreig right into Berlin.Yes if America didn't get involved MAYBE the Nazi's would have taking over the rest of europe but theres alot more to WW2 then just America thinking they won it,German Officers made some very poor choices along with Hitler doing the same.It wasn't just Americas involvement.Plus i believe we may have stayed after the war cause well there hasn't been a WW3,YET.

The Heck it did!
Read up on it again!
It was after Pearl Harbor when Germany declared War on the US!

D-Day happened late in the War,definitely NOT prior to Pearl Harbor!

Sorry you're wrong i typed we got involved we were shipping aid to the Brits...nice try,maybe you should read my post better.

Actually, our troops weren't sent by the US/FDR............our troops were allowed to volunteer in the war alongside the Brits!!! Some flew the B52 bombers, other marched upon the ground, but before Pearl Harbor any fighting was voluntary.....we did send supplies before Pearl Harbor though that much is correct.

you claim he sent Troops into the European War as the result of German U-Boats sinking some Lend-Lease!

This William Blum?

http://www.danielpipes.org/3308/william-blum-and-al-qaedas-leftist-brigade

William Blum, a Washington, D.C. writer, responded delightedly last Thursday on learning that Osama bin Laden had cited his book in an audiotape. Blum called the mention of Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower "almost as good as being an Oprah book," a reference to the popular American television host whose endorsement routinely makes a book a bestseller.

Asked if he was queasy about bin Laden's urging listeners to read his book, Blum replied: "I'm not repulsed, and I'm not going to pretend I am." Quite the contrary, he said: "I'm glad. … It's good publicity for my book." And, indeed, it was: Thanks to bin Laden's promotion, Rogue State ascended from 205,763 to 26 on Amazon.com's ranking of most-ordered books.





Blum explained his response by saying he found bin Laden no worse than the U.S. government: "I would not say that bin Laden has been any less moral than Washington has been." He even refused to distance himself from bin Laden's views: "If he shares with me a deep dislike for certain aspects of U.S. foreign policy, then I'm not going to spurn any endorsement of the book by him. I think it's good that he shares those views."

Blum describes his life mission as "slowing down the American Empire, … injuring the beast." Not surprisingly, Noam Chomsky, Oliver Stone, Gore Vidal, and their ilk have lavished praise on his work.

What attracted bin Laden to Blum? This passage (which actually comes from another of Blum's books, titled Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire): "If I were the [U.S.] president, I could stop terrorist attacks against the United States in a few days. Permanently. I would first apologize—very publicly and very sincerely—to all the widows and orphans, the impoverished and the tortured, and all the many millions of other victims of American imperialism."

Until his sudden catapult into the public eye, Blum, 72, had lived the quiet life of a second-string America-hater. The child of Polish Jewish immigrants, he grew up in Brooklyn, studied accounting in college, and, as an anti-communist with aspirations to become a foreign service officer, he went to work at a computer-related position in the U.S. Department of State in the mid-1960s. The Vietnam War radicalized him and he resigned from State in 1967 to pursue a career of far-left advocacy and sabotage (he claims to have revealed the names and addresses of over two hundred CIA operatives). For nearly forty years, Blum has written op-eds after articles after books pursuing his hobbyhorse to prove the alleged evil of the U.S. government officials, whom he has compared to "chainsaw baby killers."

He goes so far as to state the existence of an American-sponsored "holocaust" since 1945 that has caused the death of a few million people and condemned many more millions to "lives of misery and torture." David Horowitz, a foremost analyst of the left, sums up this line of thought in his excellent study, Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left (Regnery): for Blum, "America is worse than Nazi Germany." Horowitz also notes that "there is no discernible difference" between Blum's view of the U.S. role in the Cold War and the crudest Communist caricature manufactured in the Kremlin.

Although Blum was childishly delighted by his sudden celebrity and riches, his comrades on the far left reacted more warily to bin Laden's endorsement, aware how it reveals that, as Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media puts it, "bin Laden is counting on a [leftist] fifth column in the U.S. to undermine the war on terrorism and hand him a victory on the battlefield."

Such exposure so worries some on the far left that they have gone so far as to portray the bin Laden audiotape to be "an obvious fake" concocted by neo-conservatives in the U.S. government. But elaborate conspiracy theories cannot undo the fact that the Islamist-leftist alliance, burgeoning for years, has now reached the point that the far left constitutes Al-Qaeda's new mujahideen.

After having failed to mount a massive terrorist operation in the United States in over four years, bin Laden's early but very public Valentine to the far left suggests that he sees it as a critical ally. And he is entirely correct to do so.

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Sep. 17, 2009 update: Gabriel Schoenfeld updates this analysis at "Osama's American Yes-Men," reporting on the mutual admiration society that exists between bin Laden, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, Jimmy Carter, and Michael Scheuer.