[link|http://www.heritage.org/Research/AsiaandthePacific/HL680.cfm|Sometimes it just gets you in deeper]

Excerpt:

By 1950, the government of Syngman Rhee appeared to the North to be weak and fraught with internal disunity. Hearing Acheson's public statements and seeing that the United States had not intervened when mainland China fell to the Communists, Communist leaders concluded that the United States would not support Syngman Rhee with troops. These indications of U.S. indifference to Korea are likely to have given weight to Kim Il Sung's arguments in Moscow and Beijing. Finally, the Soviet Union and China gave in to Kim Il Sung's persistent pleas to permit him to seize South Korea. 5

Such statements by American policymakers before the start of the Korean War show the perils of appeasement, conflicting diplomatic signals, and isolationism. The invasion that followed proved that public indications of America's desire to exit a quagmire do not facilitate such a move.

I say:

All too releveant to the terrorist problem. If the US had been firmer with Islamofascism earlier, we might not be in this mess now. Aw, but what does history know?