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To: tejek who wrote (359943)	11/27/2007 3:21:33 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1573691

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? Of course, but it should not be our position to make it right. If we didn't have an alliance with South Korea it wouldn't be our obligation, but it would still be a good and proper thing for us to do, as well as something that was generally beneficial to the world. One of our biggest trading partners today is China. Had we not gone into Korea, maybe China would not have kept its walls for so long and we might have been trading vigorously with them much sooner. Or maybe the opposite would have occurred, or maybe the China would have opened up its economy about the same time. The what if game can be played forever. Unless you give me some reason to believe a particular scenario will play out as you claim it will, I would heavily discount the possibility when considering what is the right way to respond to a situation.