Well, while the Berlin Airlift stopped a lot of people from dying of starvation, the real reason for it was not to stop nonm-Americans dying. It was to maintain US (and at the time British) Prestige and Power. If they had walked away, the West would have been shown by the USSR to be weak and powerless. Their influence in many parts of teh world would have been weakened, especially in the Oil & Mineral exporting nations...

War is a form of Economic Attrition. War is just Politics carried beyond Peace.

Didn't Korea have Tin Mines, or was that Vietnam?

Robin