I see no blaspheming here by Impy. Truman did one good thing in ending WW2, but almost any other person in office at that time when given a gift to bring a horrific war to a close whose alternative was sacrificing a million more American troops and countless millions of Japanese civilians in a War for Japan would’ve done the same.
Other than that, Truman was an utter fiasco that left us with disastrous problems up to the present day. His failure to allow MacArthur to march through to China and depose Mao in favor of Chiang gave the Communists a permanent gift from which to continue their atrocities. A Chiang-run Nationalist China would’ve meant virtually no SE Asia misadventures. No countless millions of victims of Communism. Vietnam would be a united and FREE Republic today. No separate Koreas, a strong and united Republic.
That doesn’t even begin to address Truman’s failures to combat the deep infiltration of our government and society of Soviet and pro-Soviet sympathizers.
Indeed, had Truman been on the right side of these issues, we would have a vastly different and better country and safer world today. But Truman chosen by God ? Given the outcome above, I’d say it was the other fella that had a hand in it. In fact, I’d call anyone saying we were blessed by Truman to be the blasphemer, and that’s no joke.
Impy talked me off of the Truman Train.
Here’s an excellent WW2 show from The History Channel. It specifically discusses Truman the last 5-7 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06CYnE0kwS0&feature=youtu.be
I’ll go back to what I’ve posted previously posted: The last, and possibly only “good” RAT POTUS was James Polk and that was ~170 years ago.
“I have mixed feelings on Ike’s Presidency. McArthur or Patton would have been better.”
Well, the Cold War would’ve been nonexistent. I believe Eisenhower was either directly or at a minimum tacitly involved in Patton’s assassination.
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