Intervention Let's look now at the problem of intervention in more detail.
Your career covers a very interesting cycle in American diplomacy beginning with your period in Vietnam as an advisor and an aide to Ambassador Lodge, and then in Europe with him. And then in the Clinton administration to Bosnia and a reluctance to intervene, but then intervention and then intervention again in Kosovo. During that period Harry, there were four or five critical moments, and let me try to identify them and then go back and talk a little bit about the evolution in my thinking and the general consideration of policy people in this area. There was the Korean War, where we lost about as many people as we did in Vietnam, not quite as many but still, fifty-five thousand people, and where there was a resolution but not a triumph, because a truce was established in 1953. Whether it was a military defeat on the ground or a political defeat, the U.S. objective in Vietnam to preserve a noncommunist entity in the South obviously failed, and the southern part of the country was taken over by the North in 1975.