Re: Check out The Village Voice: Features: Rite for the Wronged by Chisun Lee

[Ed Evanhoe <gangster@oio.net>]

>John,

> >>It seems you don't understand that the North Koreans
>are claiming the South attacked first. It is still too early
>to judge who was right. In any case, invasion
>is not an appropriate word for describing the Korean War which
>was basically a civil war. <<

Oh!  I know the North Korean claims quite well.  I also know
those claims are pure propaganda, put out mainly to help keep
their own people in line.

And "invasion" is a proper word to use.  When one party, backed and
equipped by outside forces, attacks without warning, I call that an
invasion.

> >>Do we say that the South invaded the North in telling
>the American Civil War? <<

No!  We say Southern supporters "fired" on Fort Summer, which is in what
was part of the South.

Ed
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