[tridentboy]

There is a big difference in the intervention made by US in east asian countries, and the interventions made by superpowers in other countries.

I'm not saying that South Korea and Japan didn't make good use of this intervention, but while the intervention in those countries was more akin to a financing/investment, which was in line with US' Marshall Plan during the Cold War.

In other countries such as those from Africa/South America, it was direct exploration of people and resources without really giving something back.

[rayiner]

There was not that sort of investment in South Korea, and of course in Vietnam the opposite happened since the communists won the war there.