This is why 28,500 troops are still in Korea.

[ronnie624]

124. I "dare" not disagree with your distorted view of history

because you have a deep emotional investment in it?

Can you really see no problem here?

There is no way to rationally dispute the fact that the US bombed Korea to rubble. Cities, dams and food crops were targeted in violation of international law, and millions died as result. This is the very definition of mass murder. The motive for it, was geopolitical in nature and purely self-serving to the US, thus lacking any kind of moral legitimacy. The problem you have, is in the way it is characterized. You don't like the use of the word 'murder'. This is a prime example of the concept of cognitive dissonance.

Korea was used as a bargaining chip in negotiations and agreements with the USSR. When S. Korea, in violation of these agreements, declared independence in 1950 -- most likely at the urging of the US -- N. Korea Attacked. The history of it is very well established.

To say that S. Korea "asked" for intervention, is to proceed from a premise that is not accurate. No Koreans were involved in the division of their country, and the vast majority of them were utterly opposed to it. The S. Korean government was a US imposed dictatorship, plain and simple.

The US, through its actions in the past and its current wrong-headed policies, bears most of the responsibility for the geopolitical status quo in that region. Accept it.