[BlackElk]

50 years (actually nearly 60 years) is entirely too long but that length was dictated and the future length is dictated by Truman's refusal to conquer the north and to do it as the US and not under the UN. We could have taken out the Chicoms in the process but noooooo. Interventionism is the American way, not isolationist cowardice or internationalist globaloney. When necessary, war under whatever auspices is better than a phony peace. If two lions and one lamb vote on what's for dinner, the main ingredient will be lamb.

We certainly should not punish South Korea for returning to a sensible pro-Western stance by removing the troops at the DMZ. When the communist bosses of North Korea are dead and when the place has been rehabilitated and disarmed and is ruled by the South, then we can talk withdrawal.

[fortheDeclaration]

50 years (actually nearly 60 years) is entirely too long but that length was dictated and the future length is dictated by Truman's refusal to conquer the north and to do it as the US and not under the UN. We could have taken out the Chicoms in the process but noooooo.

Well, that would have meant declaring a war and winnng it, something we haven't done since WW2.

Interventionism is the American way,

It is!

We didn't start intervening until the Spanish American War.

not isolationist cowardice or internationalist globaloney. When necessary, war under whatever auspices is better than a phony peace. If two lions and one lamb vote on what's for dinner, the main ingredient will be lamb.

You guys would try to find a enemy to fight a war against even in the Millennium.

We certainly should not punish South Korea for returning to a sensible pro-Western stance by removing the troops at the DMZ. When the communist bosses of North Korea are dead and when the place has been rehabilitated and disarmed and is ruled by the South, then we can talk withdrawal.

Yea, in another 50 years, if the US survives that long.