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To: MikefromOhio
They hit us with one, we'd hit back and there would be no China.

If only Truman had listened to MacArthur...

64 posted on 06/20/2006 6:53:27 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: buccaneer81

hindsight is 20/20...


65 posted on 06/20/2006 6:56:35 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (aka MikeinIraq - Foreman of the NAU)
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To: buccaneer81

Too bad MacArthur managed to get completely surprised by the Chinese intervention in the first place, despite numerous indications it was coming.

Similar to losing his Air Force on the ground in the Philippines the day after Pearl Harbor.


68 posted on 06/20/2006 7:01:54 PM PDT by Strategerist
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