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To: tejek who wrote (358226)	11/13/2007 7:26:10 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573433

Okay, Tim, tell me why the Korean War was important to the defense of the American homeland? Why more than 36K soldiers had to die? So that young Koreans can hate the US?

To: tejek who wrote (358226)	11/22/2007 11:28:18 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573433

"Important" isn't the same as directly important to the defense of the US. Neither is "real war". Having almost 50 million South Koreans live under conditions like those in the North Korean hell hole would be a rather bad thing don't you think? Well probably there would have been fewer of them as many starved or where killed by the regime, so I suppose I shouldn't say almost 50 million. Also even more narrowly from the perspective of US interests, if we count South Koreans and their wealth and freedom as being worth nothing - If we were passive in the cold war than the world would have shifted against us. Even back then overseas trade was important to us. If the rest of the world moves more to support those hostile to us, and also doesn't produce as much to trade with us, than we would be worse off.