I’m not saving it’s always good, it’s not. but it’s not accurate to say it’s always bad either. US participation in World War II, and intervention in Korea, and the former Yugoslavia led to better outcomes than had they not occurred.
The North invaded the South and had almost overrun the entire peninsula, everything except Pusan, when the U.S. landed forces at Inchon. There’s no way the intervention can be spun as bad. You can certainly argue the US subsequently made a mistake when they continued advancing north after liberating Seoul and provoked Chinese intervention but that doesn’t invalidate the legitimacy of the initial intervention.
I’m not saving it’s always good, it’s not. but it’s not accurate to say it’s always bad either. US participation in World War II, and intervention in Korea, and the former Yugoslavia led to better outcomes than had they not occurred.
korea???
The North invaded the South and had almost overrun the entire peninsula, everything except Pusan, when the U.S. landed forces at Inchon. There’s no way the intervention can be spun as bad. You can certainly argue the US subsequently made a mistake when they continued advancing north after liberating Seoul and provoked Chinese intervention but that doesn’t invalidate the legitimacy of the initial intervention.