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To: tberry
I appreciate your comment about the constitution

However, this article by these english people is all wet. Our troops went over to Korea to fight a horrific war for the sake of people who didn't want to be ruled by the communists. There were tremendous sacrifices paid by people who had no direct interest in that war. These people should always be honored. They did not go over there to kill civilians, that wasn't their motivation, if it happened it was inadvertent.

Very few south koreans will do anything but praise the american efforts of 1950-1953.

It was not american strategy nor tactics to just plain kill civilians in an effort to weaken our enemy. By contrast in ww2 the english did exactly that to the germans. They sent their bombers over the objections of the americans to bomb several german cities strictly for the sake of killing civilians. They killed hundreds of thousands in that effort unjustly I would say. The americans refused to participate in this carnage and said the efforts should all go towards military targets instead. The resolution of this conflict between the americans and the english was that the english bombers would go out and do their mission to their targets which included mostly civilians and the american bombers would go on separate missions and bomb their targets which were military, industrial, infrastructure in nature.

The english did not participate in korean war and should not be commenting at all.

6 posted on 01/28/2002 7:09:32 AM PST by Red Jones
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To: Red Jones
In 1943, President Roosevelt resolved only to accept the “unconditional surrender” of Germany and Japan. According to Clodfelter, this set the cornerstone of modern air power doctrine. The civilian leadership gave military strategists permission to end World War II through whatever means they deemed necessary, and planners stressed mass bombings of critical industrial targets or “vital centres” (railways marshalling yards population centres) to deflate the enemy’s war manufacturing capability. Additionally, continual raids took a psychological toll on the foreign civilian populations who became demoralized about the war effort and fearful for their own survival. Success attributed to air power during the 1940s was noted in the post-war United States Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS): “no nation can long survive the free exploitation of air weapons over its homeland.”.

British troops did serve in Korea, in fact we sent 80,000 men.

Cheers Tony

7 posted on 01/28/2002 7:25:36 AM PST by tonycavanagh
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