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To: EveningStar

understanding his actions in Korea, i find it difficult to lionize him...


3 posted on 09/05/2016 9:28:52 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: camle

His self-aggrandizing in WWII was no different.


5 posted on 09/05/2016 9:32:46 AM PDT by sparklite2 (The game overs whether you play it or not.)
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To: camle
understanding his actions in Korea, i find it difficult to lionize him...

He certainly underestimated Mao's willingness to feed as many Chinese into the conflict as necessary, regardless of the losses. Mao always thought of the Chinese population as cannon fodder.

11 posted on 09/05/2016 9:44:28 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte ("Political Correctness is communist propaganda writ small" - Theodore Dalrymple)
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