I Hope He Was Misquoted

5/8/25 NPR covered V-E Day (Victory in Europe for you kids).  They quoted a veteran:

Today, Miller says he likes to share his story to help others understand the futility of war and hopefully inspire them to prevent similar conflicts from happening again.

I hope, I hope people will see the futility of it all, because look at Germany. Look at Japan. Look at Vietnam. Look at Korea," he said. "Everything is beautiful over there now, and it could've stayed that way, but no, we had to have a war.""

Why are things beautiful in Germany, Japan, and Korea (at least S. Korea)? Because we fought WW2 and the Korean War to give them the chance to be beautiful democracies. We cannot take credit for Vietnam but without WW2, Germany and Japan would still be beautiful. America would resemble

The Man in the High Castle.