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To: TimF who wrote (105602)	7/16/2003 10:56:29 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi twfowler; Re: "... but Korea wasn't really a guerilla war." This is true, and the reason that the North Koreans were unable to develop a guerilla war in South Korea are quite illustrative of the limitations of US power. Since the US is fundamentally a sea power, South Korea, especially with the border at the narrow point it is now at, was a country where the vast majority of the border was relatively immune to infiltration. Iraq, by contrast, has long, sometimes mountainous, and never very well policed borders, especially with Iran. Re: "Or are you talking about the intervention in Korea in the 19th century?" I'm very impressed that you were aware of that, LOL. It thought it was more or less completely forgotten, right up there with the Quasi War with France. -- Carl P.S. Links, of course: The First U.S. Korea War brianwillson.com Quasi War with France yale.edu