Korea set the standard: we’ll do anything on behalf of anyone, especially on behalf of ourselves; that’s the American promise. So straight out of the gate, the Cold War was emphatically not about democracy versus totalitarianism. In Korea and in every subsequent proxy war, it was about capitalism versus threat to capitalism.
A subliminally suggestive notion that American values stem from the influences of foreign nations.
- is this an attempt to subvert accountability for America?
- is this a suggestion that America was at one time innocent and perhaps capable of becoming innocent once more if only it were to shed its learnt behaviours ?
