Thank you

Excellent chronology there.

http://w-o-e.blogspot.com/2008/04/gulf-of-tonkin-it-didnt-happen.html

More refugees too.

“War” – Edwin Starr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d8C4AIFgUg

“War,
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing

war, I despise
Because it means destruction
Of innocent lives

War means tears
To thousands of mothers eyes
When their sons go to fight
And lose their lives

War, it ain’t nothing
But a heartbreaker
War, friend only to the undertaker
It’s an enemy to all mankind
The point of war blows my mind
War has caused unrest
Within the younger generation
Induction then destruction
Who wants to die
Listen to me

war, has shattered
Many a young mans dreams
Made him disabled, bitter and mean
Life is much to short and precious
To spend fighting wars these days
War can’t give life
It can only take it away

Peace, love and understanding
Tell me, is there no place for them today
They say we must fight to keep our freedom
But Lord knows there’s got to be a better way

War,
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing” -Edwin Starr

The lyrics of the song by this child singer is meaningful:
Tell Me Why- Declan Galbraith :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg_MxONabNc

How true.

War and its end can be summarized by Plato’s “Only the dead have seen the end of war”

1840s-1890s – Wars of French colonization in Indochina.

1945 – Japanese briefly rule Indochina. British and U.S. military forces assist the French attempt to reestablish colonial rule in Indochina.

1946 – The Vietminh resist. First Indochina War begins.

1954 – French are defeated at Dien Bien Phu

1962 – U.S. pilots are clandestinely bombing North Vietnam in an attempt to destabilize the Ho Chi Minh government.

1963 – 15,500 Americans in Vietnam.
1965 – 125,000 American troops in Vietnam.
1966 – 400,000 American troops in Vietnam.
1967 – 500,000 American troops in Vietnam.
1971 – As of February, approx. 325,000 American troops remain in Vietnam.
The U.S. lost about 50,000 soldiers in Vietnam, and suffered more than 300,000 wounded. Later estimates put the figure of Vietnamese deaths up to nearly 5 million, 4 million civilians killed. The war cost nearly 150 billion U.S. dollars.

1975 – Since 1975 as many as 1.5 million people have fled Vietnam, many in unseaworthy boats risking storms and pirates to reach an uncertain haven. Perhaps 500,000 of them died at sea.

1979 Sino-Vietnamese War begins and ends. Vietnam establishes the People’s Republic of Kampuchea in Cambodia.

1989 – Vietnam withdraws from Cambodia, ending nearly constant warfare in Indochina for half a century.

The story for Korea sound similar. The quest for world domination by some Western countries put some areas on this planet perpectually in conflict, causing untold sufferings.

Many people I know migrated to Australia due to the war.

Some were housed in prison-like quarters before they are granted refugee status which allwoed them to stay in Australia permanently.

Let us hope that there wont be war anymore in the world so that peace will be on this earth but I am merely dreaming here.

///North Korea may be declaring war soon///

Or another boogieman concocted by the US military for an excuse to start another war?

North Korea may be declaring war soon, though.