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Korea was started by an invasion of the North to conquer and hold the South.

Korea began the practice of not fighting a war to win. Many boomers paid for that in spades in Viet Nam, just as their fathers and uncles paid for it with their blood in Korea. As Veterans Day ends, it is fitting to say that the US should never ask her soldiers to fight in a war that is not important enough to win. We (along with our UN Allies) should have used at least all of our conventional might to win in Korea.

The nuke issue was mostly BS. China and North Korea did not have them. The Soviet Union did, but they would have been the big loser, if nuclear war started and they were certainly not stupid enough to start it. That is especially true because of the UN mandate and forces in Korea, which was made possible only because the Soviets were boycotting the UN for an unrelated matter when Korea come up for a vote. Perhaps even more important is that we had more and a much better ability to deliver them within the USSR than they did to hit us or our forces.