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Originally posted by ironweed
Sometimes it is necessary to destroy the village in order to save it. Especially from the Reds.
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Destroy the whole village? 15.4 million people had their lives improved dramatically at the cost of of one thousand lives (I don't think there were that many but I will let this statistic stand for the sake of argument). As opposed to Cuba where thousands have been executed, tens if not hundreds of thousands have been imprisoned in order to condemn and entire island nation to poverty over forty years. We didn't have to destroy the village in Chile. However, in Korea we pretty much destroyed the entire southern part of the country to keep a right wing dictator in power to prevent a socialist dictator from taking over. We could have not "destroyed the village" and let the Northern Koreans take over, but do you really think South Korea would be better off today if we had not intervened. In that situation is was better to destroy the village and install a right wing dictator who tortured and imprisoned him own people than let the alternative.
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