Amen.
And if GHWBush hadn’t bowed to the UN and allowed the commanders to do their job and take out the Iraqi leadership there would not have been a 9/11/01 and we could keep our shoes on in the airport.
LOL!
Seeing through the thick left-wing reformist history, you are 100% correct.
It was what a few historians I knew, referred to as the “MacArthur Window”
Arguably, also the last strategic window to force mutation of the USSR, until the 1988-1991 phase as well.
But Truman, (remaining true to the hard left-wing FDR/Hess “Great Compromise” and near full embrace of Stalin at Yalta (which Churchill protested), which gave
Stalin nearly all of Eastern Europe, and Stalin and Mao what they needed to annihilate 75-100 million people, while forceably conquering and enslaving China to Communism), at the end of the day, inbKorea, Truman would not allow Douglas MacArthur to respond to Stalins threat of nuclear attack, in kind.
That was the last real strategic window, and really the last strategic weapon and delivery platform window as well.
Really American forces, but NATO and Korean forces, under MacArthurs command, (even while very bloody), did take back almost the entire Korean Peninsula, after it had been previously nearly lost. Before MacArthur, we had nearly lost the whole Korean Peninsula, with Seol being surrounded, brutalized, and starved out, by Communist forces.
Man, that sounds like modern day abortion industry, forceably conducted by leftists.
In general, by brute force, beginning well before WWII, very bloody efforts had been made to conquer and force Communism upon all of Southeast Asia.
LMBO
We could use Sam around now...
‘See this? This is SAAAAAANNNNNNND...’