“The American public has been persistently told that the Korean people are a degenerate and contemptible nation, incapable of better things, intellectually inferior, and better off under Japanese rule than independent.”
“The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people.”
“Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.”
“What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.”
“No American is ever made better off by pulling a fellow American down, and all of us are made better off whenever any one of us is made better off.”
“Generally it must be stated that realpolitik has been better at dividing than at ruling. Take it as a whole since Kissinger called on the Shah in 1972, and see what the harvest has been.”