Mehdi Hasan: Why Do the North Koreans Hate the U.S.? - One Reason - They Remember the Korean War - lewrockwell.com
Excerpt from this article:
"For the record, it was the North Koreans, and not the Americans or
their South Korean allies, who started the war in June 1950, when they
crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded the south. Nevertheless, 'What
hardly any Americans know or remember,' University of Chicago historian
Bruce Cumings writes
in his book 'The Korean War: A History,' 'is that we carpet-bombed the
north for three years with next to no concern for civilian casualties.' How many Americans, for example, are aware of the fact
that U.S. planes dropped on the Korean peninsula more bombs — 635,000
tons — and napalm — 32,557 tons — than during the entire Pacific
campaign against the Japanese during World War II? How many Americans know that 'over a period of three years or so,' to quote
Air Force Gen. Curtis LeMay, head of the Strategic Air Command during
the Korean War, 'we killed off … 20 percent of the population'”? (my emphasis)
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I was in my mid teens when the pop group Paper Lace came out with Billy Don't Be A Hero (Don't Be a Fool With Your Life). I remember my mother saying she thought it was a horrible song that encouraged people to dodge the draft.
Well,
my mom went home to be with her Lord many years ago, but I would guess
if she had read the following books, articles and blog posts, she would not have been so
gung-ho about America's involvement in Vietnam (or Korea!). In fact, she may have even attended Woodstock in 1968 to hear Country Joe sing his What Are We Fightin For?
None Dare Call it Treason (1964), and None Dare Call it Treason 25 Years Later
(1992), both by John A. Stormer
None Dare Call it Conspiracy (1971), by Gary Allen
Jeb and the Bush Crime Family (2016) , by Roger Stone
Laurence M. Vance: The Crime of Vietnam - lewrockwell.com
Who Got Us Into These Endless Wars? (Patrick Buchanan on Why the CFR is Freaking Out) - lewrockwell.com
Paul Craig Roberts: What the North Korean Crisis is Really About - lewrockwell.com
A History of the Council on Foreign Relations...In Our Time (my post)
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'Doonsbury Takes On Sexual Assault in The Military
