Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
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> In short, neither North nor South Korea were truly "innocent". Both were
> dictatorial regimes which pretended to be "democratic". Each was propped-up by a
> world superpower. It has been fashionable to romanticise about South Korea being
> a democracy that was being unnecessarily attacked by the North, but this is not
> the case. Both nations were simply tools of the Cold War.
I'm sorry - I missed something here. I appreciate this "fyi" but you didn't
answer my question. Did not N. Korea attack S.Korea and UN forces, including
the US intervene? Regardless of the type of government or religion involved...
> I don't know much about the Gulf region, but I know that Kuwait is most
> certainly _not_ a democracy. The National Assembly has almost no power, and
> women cannot vote (it is a very Islamic nation, after all). The press is
> strictly censored and controlled. Nevertheless, this small nation are heavily
> backed by the US and other Western nations because of their oil reserves.
>
> --
> Sridhar Dhanapalan.
> "There are two major products that come from Berkeley:
> LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
> -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Again, you've missed my original point and observation in this case.
Regardless of their type of government, they were ATTACKED by another country
and then aided by the United States. Do the Kuwaiti (sp? for plural?) people
not have their country back today because of the US? (and if it hadn't been
for the US - who could have or would have done it? If Hussein hadn't been
stopped there, what other country would have been next? Don't get me wrong, I
too feel uncomfortable with my country in a role of "world policeman", but
sometimes, you are needed...I wish it were not so...but -stuff- happens. ;-)
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