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.
I hear the offer of negotiations is on the table on this moment.
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
“And Commies have a habit of not keeping any deals they sign at negotiating tables.”
Just like Muslims!
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.