By covering up No Gun Ri, the US military abandoned the Western tradition of just war, forever. The US Army claims to have no records on the incident, and South Korean officials have suppressed attempts to investigate the shootings. In 1997, survivors filed a claim with the South Korean government, but it was rejected. Though the international statute of limitations has run out, something must be done to punish the U.S. Government. It ought to sell a few of its office buildings on Pennsylvania Avenue, liquidate the departments inside, and give the proceeds to the victims of the No Gun Ri killings.
Compensation is the only moral course.
History proves that the United States intervened on behalf of the authoritarians in South Korea to battle the Communists in North Korea. That the intervention was unconstitutional and unnecessary is obvious. No war was declared by Congress, and the Communists had not planned to invade America. If a few boys on both sides lost their lives fighting a futile war, so be it. Global Communism had to be replaced with good, old American corporate fascism.