MURDER, INC.

I am just back from from a lovelt three week stay in Korea.

Had it not been for Harry Truman, there wouldn't be a South Korea today.  His intervention--he called it a "police action," not a war, so he could avoid needing Congressional approval--which would have been required, in those good old days when the Unitged States had a constitution.

Despite the insane threats from North Korea, South Koreans still live normal, civilised lives.  We hear the helicopter patrols, we see the frigates around the coast.  But we still live sane lives.

And people don't have guns.  So we don't murder each other.

Nobody here can understand why everybody in the United States has to have a gun.  Or why people
in the supposedly United States have to kill each other all the time.

And people here--even with the North Korean crazies as their neighbors--wonder why the United States wants, constantly, to invade or bomb some other country.

The answers to their questions are several..  (1) Americans are paranoid, and have too many guns.
(2) Americans are vioilent  people.  (3) Americans are greedy, power hungry people.  (4) Americans
are too stupid to understand almost anything.

                                                                                              Bert Hornback