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No Cakewalk in KoreaWhy Halberstam lets the establishment off the hook.

By Stephen SestanovichPosted Monday, Sept. 24, 2007, at 11:24 AM ET

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Stephen Sestanovich is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and professor of diplomacy at Columbia University.
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Remarks from the Fray:

I was in the Army there in '52-'53, and I don't see any important similarity at all to the usual US "regime" change wars, mainly because of the political realities, and the (Korean) publics' ideas about them. It's no accident that there was no significant guerilla war at all. MacArthur's Inchon landing, which he should get full credit for, was not surpassed by anything Napoleon ever did, as far as I know. The North Koreans were decisively and totally defeated. As for the Chinese, it was a stalemate (We shouldn't say defeat, because, after all "it's still going on"...Yes, the General was wrong, but what he did right still outweighs it all. (Japan in its present state)

.It simply is not like Vietnam at all.

--disigny

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