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H-ASIA April 16, 2007 Reply to comment on Korean War-US tactics toward civilians-No Gun Ri ************************************************************************ From: Vincent K Pollard <pollard@hawaii.edu> Dear Colleagues, Following up on Ian Welch's and Frank Conlon's post, I'm not offended by the comments. Not at all. Instead of writing an expansive post on the topic, I summarized the Freedom-of-Information Act (FOIA) angle in the paragraph quoted from the longer co-authored (URL-linked) Associated Press (AP) report. Two others -- unacknowledged by me-- also contributed to the AP summary. Perhaps the acronym "FOIA" also belonged in the subject line of the post. Since I have experience with FOIA myself, the more recent of two how-to-do-it FOIA-focused articles of mine will be useful to history, sociology and political science graduate students of H-ASIA colleagues are as follows: "Asia-Pacific Policies of the Kennedy, Johnson and Reagan Administrations: Accessing Secret U.S. Executive Branch Documents," _Asia-Pacific Social Science Review_, vol. 5, no. 2 (December 2005), pp. 108-113 Arguably, no political scientist, sociologist or historian is neutral in the sense of not caring about the impact of one's research questions. With that in mind, foregrounding innocent civilian casualties in the Korean War reminds us that those deaths are not natural. Vincent K Pollard University of Hawai'i at Manoa http://www2.hawaii.edu/~pollard/ ****************************************************************** To post to H-ASIA simply send your message to: <H-ASIA@h-net.msu.edu> For holidays or short absences send post to: <listserv@h-net.msu.edu> with message: SET H-ASIA NOMAIL Upon return, send post with message SET H-ASIA MAIL H-ASIA WEB HOMEPAGE URL: http://h-net.msu.edu/~asia/
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