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Originally Posted by Xenephex
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Jesus, Shadowwulf, do you even have the slightest inkling of the history of the Korean war? And while I'm not going to try to defend Vietnam, which was mis-guided, massively mis-managed and completely mis-understood by almost everyone, have you ever wondered why it is that Taxi even has a 'Vietnamese neighbor?' Why so many of us have so many Vietnamese neighbors? Ask them some time.
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Im simply not as simple viewing or color blind as you are.
The cause and justification of the Korean, and Vietnam, wars was ostensibly to help a country in need, which one may consider just and fine.
The political need was not to help said country's at all but to facilitate the spread of western influence and power (not democracy, see Iraq, Afghanistan, Taiwan to name just a few for examples of this). The communists were at the same time engaged in the same activity, in other places of the world (BLOC countrys, China early on, Vietnam, Korea with Chinese help, Cuba).
So what you have is more or less the same acts going on all over the world, with roughly the same justifications, horrible acts, heroic acts, and propaganda tailored to each side's ideological system. The names and faces are different but the justification is identical on both sides. You simply cannot evaluate a conflict out of context or place and reasonably arrive at any kind of meaningful viewpoint. The whole conflict and most others between 1945-1990 are all interconnected and mired a political clash which is now being repeated, down to the same buzz words and propaganda in the media, on BOTH SIDES.
For the record I am not a communist, and am staunchly anti-authoritarian. I am a democratic socialist but even that label is a bit misleading, the entire socialist "idea" is so varied and diverse it boggles the mind how much good, and bad, can be arrived a through it. But it is an alternative meant to build upon and eventually replace (but not to DESTROY) capitalism and classic republican democracy. I personally believe in trying to get people to change their underlying way of looking around them, and at the world, than any particular political sentiment. Through a more well rounded and even viewpoint people can come to accomplish great things together, in any system, but first old molds and preconceptions and narrow mindedness needs to be shattered or at least, hopefully, cast in doubt.