"John D. Giorgis" wrote:
>
> At 11:28 PM 3/3/2003 -0600 Julia Thompson wrote:
> >I think the last truly good war we got involved in was WWII, and, let's see,
> >one country attacked us without warning, and the other really big one we
> >ended up fighting declared war on *us*. So we didn't really start that one,
> >now, did we?
>
> Ummmm...... have you forgotten the Korean War?
That one was a little messier, and the "victory" wasn't as clean.
On a scale where WWII is a 10, and Viet Nam is a 1, I'd stick the Korean war
around 7 or 8 or so. Not perfect, but not too bad. But not *truly* good,
with as clear-cut a reason for going.
Julia
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