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To: Fledermaus; ALOHA RONNIE; Travis McGee; Grampa Dave; Squantos; blackie; archy; MEG33; backhoe; ...

It's past time for all of our decent and upright leaders to admit that the USA has been appeasing its domestic enemies for 55 years. When Truman undercut McArthur in Korea, that was the moment we started seeing the division occur. Why? Was it a conspiracy? I think it was fear. We were tired of fighting. And our enemies knew it. The effectiveness of other conspiracies increased after that Faustian moment.

29 posted on 03/22/2004 1:58:37 AM PST by risk

...fear... *external* enemies knew it...

30 posted on 03/22/2004 2:03:35 AM PST by risk

Truman did not want to go to war with Mao or Uncle Joe...and I do think we were tired.

32 posted on 03/22/2004 2:08:29 AM PST by MEG33 (John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security!)

We should have helped the warlord Chiang Kai Shek more at the proper time to keep Mao out of power at the end of WW2

There were many communists and fellow travelers in and around our State Dept during and after WW2(Yes McCarthy was right.)It was terribly fashionable.

34 posted on 03/22/2004 2:22:24 AM PST by MEG33 (John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security!)

That and distraction. Truman did very well with containing Soviet expansionism in Berlin and Greece, and a juggling act can only be carried on for so long before the inevitable comes to pass.

But even given Truman's personality and personal shortcomings, I thing he was horrified at the possibility the public would learn just how much his predecessor had bargained away. He kept the lid on as well as he could, but our adversaries were not playing by his rules.

The funny thing is, the American public probably would have supported him had he taken the steps then that were really necessary. And he might be remembered as the American president who accomplished what had to wait for Reagan to come along to get done. -archy-/-

38 posted on 03/22/2004 2:41:01 AM PST by archy (Concrete shoes, cyanide, TNT! Done dirt cheap! Neckties, contracts, high voltage...Done dirt cheap!)

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50 posted on 03/22/2004 5:07:52 AM PST by ALOHA RONNIE (Vet-Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.LZXRAY.com)

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59 posted on 03/22/2004 7:23:07 AM PST by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)

Go back farther...FDR should have let Patton cross the Rhine and take out Stalin.

64 posted on 03/22/2004 6:37:31 PM PST by Fledermaus (Ðíé F£éðérmáú§ ^;;^ says, "Tick off France, Germany, Spain and Al Qaeda - VOTE BUSH!")

Go back farther...FDR should have let Patton cross the Rhine and take out Stalin.

65 posted on 03/22/2004 6:37:37 PM PST by Fledermaus (Ðíé F£éðérmáú§ ^;;^ says, "Tick off France, Germany, Spain and Al Qaeda - VOTE BUSH!")

Go back farther...FDR should have let Patton cross the Rhine and take out Stalin.

66 posted on 03/22/2004 6:37:57 PM PST by Fledermaus (Ðíé F£éðérmáú§ ^;;^ says, "Tick off France, Germany, Spain and Al Qaeda - VOTE BUSH!")

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