"Was [Cronkite] a Red Diaper baby in drag?"
An excellent question. When I was in Vietnam I hated his f---ing guts even then. The North Vietnamese watched CBS, too, and got aid and comfort from it.
But as to your question: Ol' Crankcase was all gung-ho for the Allied side in WWII, but like many libs, only I repeat only because the glorious Soviet Union was our co-belligerent (the enemy of our enemy, but only after the Nazis doublecrossed them).
I'll betcha ol' Uncle Walter was lukewarm about our fighting communism in the Korean War.
It's obvious that that was the high point of his career as he sees it. It's kinds like Glenn going up in the shuttle after tanking an investigation for Clinton. The sweet justice of Glenn's perfidity was him yorking on the shuttle for an hour after it landed.