By May 1951, the communists were pushed back to the 38th parallel, and the battle line remained in that vicinity for the remainder of the war. On July 27, 1953, after two years of negotiation, an armistice was signed, ending the war and reestablishing the 1945 division of Korea that still exists today. Approximately 150,000 troops from South Korea, the United States, and participating U.N. nations were killed in the Korean War, and as many as one million South Korean civilians perished. An estimated 800,000 communist soldiers were killed, and more than 200,000 North Korean civilians died.
I'm a supporter of the 3-month aerial bombing of Serbia which ended its attacks on separatist Kosovo and the secular-muslim Albanians there. Just this weekend I was wearing my Kosovo t-shirt of the 14th C Serbian Decani Monastery, a major point of contention between the two sides (the monastery itself, not my particular t-shirt).
A use of force more than a traditional war. But military intervention which stopped an ugly war and led to the formation of an independent, peaceful, fairly stable Kosovo. Good bombing. There's a George W. Bush statue in one town, a Bill Clinton statue in the capital Pristina, a highway named after both those presidents, etc.
I also was glad the US/EU ousted the odious and murderous Qaddafi when it was feasible, though they failed to follow that up with any plan. Libya is a wealthy country, with few ethnic minorities and a small population. Should have been a relatively easy place for nation-building, with any kind of effort/plan. Stupid GOP wastes years investigating the Benghazi consulate attack/killings, but never looked into why there was no plan to stabilize Libya after removing the dictator (necessarily creating an enormous political void).
And still I'd rather have Libya divided and mucked up post-Q, then have Qaddafi fomenting civil wars throughout Africa.
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