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I think the international community screwed up this time round. There wasn't any real irregularity per se, only that the West and allies thought there was stoking violence in Iran. This caused the government to then violate international human rights. I mean, why is China not being attacked by US? There you are, double standards. Maybe if US really wanted to, it should act in China first where elections are non-existent, or Thailand, where the military is the king-maker. And, seen from a outside view, both are in military coup (China being in one since 1949.) You want to talk human rights? Return China to the ROC!
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2009-07-06, 02:02 | Link #225 |
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DPRK was slightly different. I myself am not sure about the anti-Japanese resistance in Korea during the Second World War, but I do remember that the 38th parallel was drawn "at random", by two junior officers, if my memory serves me.
Also, the US really has no business in Vietnam. The Vietnamese communists are first and foremost nationalists. They threw out the French at Dien Bien Phu in '54, and the States thought that communism was spreading.
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2009-07-06, 02:18 | Link #227 |
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Acording to "Time Goes to War", the 38th parallel was (I quote) "hastily- almost randomly - selected by two young US officers working with a student atlas late at night in the closing days of WWII."
From Wiki: "The parallel was established as the boundary by Dean Rusk and Charles Bonesteel of the US State-War Navy Coordinating Committee in Washington during the night of 10-11 August 1945, four days before the complete liberation of Korea." The two officers were young (35/36 years old), but not junior in rank. That was my mistake.
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2009-07-06, 02:28 | Link #229 |
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Well, it is very likely that the two gentlemen just wanted both sides to have roughly the same amount of land after the divide. From "Time Goes to War", it would seem that the US had little to no interest in Korea before the war began.
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it almost sounds like you actually believe that freedom isnt anyone's RIGHT practically the entire human race had spent thousends of years living under one form of oppression or another, and this idea that "freedom is a RIGHT" is a product of the last few centuries (and is far from global, most of the world aint free yet) you arent guaranteed freedom there are always people who would seek to rob you of it, and you would have to FIGHT them in order to keep it iran is a very good example of what happens when those types of people WIN i prefer a MUCH better and more accurete quote by Thomas Jefferson "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
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