Posted on 04/29/2017 1:30:14 AM PDT by Beowulf9
Old article from last year.
"North Korea’s boast that it just detonated its first hydrogen bomb met instant doubts from the White House and arms experts. If they’re right, Pyongyang “only” has plain-old atomic bombs. What a . . . relief?
But, as one Chinese expert told The Wall Street Journal, the H-bomb claim still shows that tyrant Kim Jong-un is “marching in that direction.”
For all this, thank Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. North Korea couldn’t have done it without their gullibility.
Back in 1994, President Clinton prepared to confront North Korea over CIA reports it had built nuclear warheads and its subsequent threats to engulf Japan and South Korea in “a sea of fire.”"
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Its easy to play blame the previous presidents, so I’ll join in to.
Donald Trump praised Douglas MacArthur last year and it was Harry Truman who fired MacArthur back in 1951 for wanting to win the Korean War.
“In war there is no substitute for victory”, MacArthur told Congress when he returned home back then.
Dwight Eisenhower opted for ‘brinksmanship’ using the threat of nuclear weapons to force the Communist side (China, North Korea) to sign a cease-fire at a negotiating table.
The North Koreans ‘learned’ from that experience and like all Communists took the long view, never gave up and continued nasty hit and run attacks including assassinations, terror bombings etc. in the decades since while they developed nuclear weapons.
And now they threaten in hopes of cutting deals at negotiating tables like they did with Bill Clinton back in the 1990’s.
And Commies have a habit of not keeping any deals they sign at negotiating tables.
Lets hope everyone understands that since I hear the offer of negotiations is on the table on this moment.
Don’t absolve the two Bush dolts. Or Obama.
I hear the offer of negotiations is on the table on this moment.
This book was published in 1991. Plenty of time since then for said rogue agencies to have achieved finesse toward their goals.
Damn well for them!
This is what happens when you kick the can down the road. They are all to blame for NOT MAKING DECISIONS ...the highest mark of ant leader.
Thank you for that historical perspective.
In particular, I didn’t know about MacArthur being fired for wanting to (GASP!) win the war.
Although I knew about DD Eisenhower.
You have also illustrated, inadvertently probably, the folly of failing to teach correct American history to our students.
Yeah, we miscalculated too. When we crossed the Yalu River it was like stirring up a red ant nest, the Chicoms came pouring over the border and drove us back.
The icing on the Truman/MacArthur feud climaxed when the general left the pres. waiting on the tarmac at Wake Island in order to make a grand entrance. LOL
Carter’s award of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 is when I realized that even the Nobel Awards were political. He won for brokering the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty with the Norks. Two weeks later we found out they hadn’t stopped developing their weapons. He didn’t return the Prize.
*Ooff, puff, grunt, scribble, scribble***) Boy It’s tough being the number one guy in a murderous police state. All these papers and junk I gotta sign. And all those parades I gotta go to where everybody tells me how much they love me ‘n’ blowing up my enemies with anti-aircraft artillery ‘n’ mortar fire. Yeah, it ain’t easy. Hey, I’ll call my home boy Denis Rodman..!
“And Commies have a habit of not keeping any deals they sign at negotiating tables.”
Just like Muslims!
ZULU,
When you take a hard look at our presidents, with the exception of Ronald Reagan and perhaps to a small extend, Dwight Eisenhower, they have ALL failed in their constitutional duty to protect us going all the way back to the end of WWII. Donald Trump, maybe the ONLY president in modern times to actually understand his oath of office. And interestingly Trump, Reagan and Eisenhower were not lifelong politicians, or lawyers!
Both of these were the people’s choice. Both of these were re-elected by the people that knew full well what bastards, traitors, and haters of America they were. I would opine that the people got what they voted for and wanted both times.
“Yeah, we miscalculated too. When we crossed the Yalu River it was like stirring up a red ant nest”
I don’t believe we ever actually crossed the Yalu River. It was MacArthur who wanted to do it and Truman who fired him for suggesting it. History has proven MacArthur was right. We should have fixed the Korean Peninsula while we had the chance in 1950.
Totmy agree.
You're right. I just read about the war. We pushed the N. Koreans to the river.
The Chinese poured over the river and drove the UN troops back.
We never crossed it.
Worse, Truman started the Korean War in the first place: after conceding China to the communists, Truman’s state department let it out that the U.S. defensive sphere in East Asia covered only Japan and the Philippines. Stalin was listening and gave the green light to NK to invade.
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