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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (48415)	10/1/2002 1:37:45 AM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 281500

Hi Karen Lawrence; Re: "I was just pointing out that relative to Vietnam today, which we stopped occupying 27 years ago, N/S Korea isn't doing as well." Well, South Korea is doing absolutely magnificently, but you're probably right that if North Korea had absorbed South Korea the later history of the North Korea might have been better. But we weren't giving weapons and assistance to North Korea, LOL. Re: "I think Vietnam was a mistake." So do I, nowadays. But I didn't think it at the time. It's easy to get caught up in conflict. What's the classic phrase, "he hit me back first" or something like that. -- Carl

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (48415)	10/1/2002 7:35:02 AM
From: aladin	Respond to of 281500

Karen, I would suggest a trip to N&S Vietnam and N&S Korea. I have to admit that I have not been to N Korea, but in general I think you will find that South Korea is doing much better than the other 3. If its your thesis that we should have abandoned the South then you are way off base. Unlike Vietnam which started out as a Truman fiasco (abandoning allies and handing a colony back to the French and starting a chain of events mostly nationalistic in nature), Korea was independent post WW2. The North was then a sponsored regime in the Cold War and Nationalism had nothing to do with it. I suspect if we had walked away from Korea, the South would look like the North. John