A certain number of agents of the American government froze and died to liberate Pusan. Which at the time was not a Film Festival, BTW. A lot of hard work paid for the Marshall Plan, the Berlin airlift, the Cold War efforts to prevent totalitarian networks from expanding, and a lot of very expensive skirmishes. I am quite aware there have been some major asininities and wastes as well, especially of late. But let us not do a major disservice tot he truth by confusing babies and bathwater here.

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