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S3 Episode 1 - “Stop Me Before I Kill Again”

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The Corean War - A History of the United States

War can condition a man to killing other men. So if we weren't in corea for the usual freedom spreading, what was the us. Actually doing there once war broke out? Truman's infamous phrase for the war was a police action meant to protect the south from the communistic north. In this case, the us. Was able to call its support for a brutal government something else entirely. This season will see how the corean war was use, quite consciously, to feel the build up of something that came to define the rest of the twentieth and certainly the 20 first century,. The national security state in america. And as we'll see, this was supposed to be the dawn

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