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To: tejek who wrote (153613)	10/18/2002 1:50:12 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) of 1580151

Ted, <It sounds like a simple decision period.> No, it wasn't. Take the case of Chun Do Hwan of South Korea. He was supported only because of America's desire to check North Korea. But he was corrupt and brutal, rising to power only through a coup d'etat. What would you do? Condemn the guy, thereby threatening your military presence in Korea? Pull out of South Korea, thereby inviting the North to come invade again? Demand a regime change, thereby playing GloboCop and meddling in the affairs of foreign governments? These aren't easy decisions. These are decisions that hold the lives of millions of people in the balance, not to mention the entire course of history on the Korean peninsula. Now as for Iraq, I'm less familiar with the reasons why we supported them in the first place. But I do know that the world was a lot different during the Cold War than it is now. Luckily we won the Cold War without a single ICBM fired, but now we have to clean up the mess that we left behind. And that includes disarming power-hungry madmen that we helped to arm in the first place. Tenchusatsu

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