Reply #27: You tell me that South Korea would have been better off had we not

[Zynx]

been there with a straight face. I dare you. The Stalinist regime in the North was always aiming to unite the country through the force of Soviet supplied arms. Their goals were expansionary. Today South Korea is much better off that we intervened. This is one of the few examples of Cold War intervention that was positive. Just because most of our interventions during the Cold War sucked doesn't mean that all of them did. For example, Greece would not have been in better hands under the control of Stalinist guerillas.