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"Were you around then"

I wasn't around during the Civil War but I believe the North won it. I dunno, maybe it is just some hack who told me the North won.

MI>"When war broke out in Korea, Truman made an understandable mistake : he appointed "Emperor Mac Arthur" to defend Korea-to the great joy of Mac Arthur's many admirers."

Then the stupid ass made a bigger mistake by firing McArthur instead of letting him win the war outright. Truman should have been impeached.

"Did he do a pretty good job in spite of his limitations

HELL NO

"Did he hate the Communists and their "Liberal" fellow-travelers with a passion ? Again, yes; and no amount of revisionism will change that in my memory."

Well, since you so passionately try to revise history, here is Truman in his own words to Henry Wallace in 1946 (From the book "Treason") - "Stalin was a fine man who wanted to do the right thing." Further, according to Coulter, he later wrote in his diary that the Russians "have always been our friends and I can't see any reason why they shouldn't be."

Truman liked to refer to Stalin as "Uncle Joe" BTW. Your revisionist view of Truman the Commie loving RAT is sick.

Spoken like a TRUE BELIEVER !!

From 1941 to 1945, Russia had been portrayed ,in every conceivable way, as a "gallant ally". It was almost impossible to pick up a newspaper, listen to the radio, or watch a newsreel without seeing something favorable about the "Reds".

With that in mind, it is not surprising that MOST people,in the early part of 1946,became confused and upset when told the Russians were no longer allies, but potential enemies.
Truman, a relatively unsophisticated man,who relied on a solidly leftist State Department for information, thought "Uncle Joe" Stalin was just another politician, who could be wheedled and manipulated.

Henry Wallace: a Crypto - Communist, was merely thought to be a bit TOO "progressive", and he had a hefty political "following", that was part of the coalition FDR had put together to stay in office. Wallace was supposed to be Truman's running mate in 1952, but got dropped from the party line like a freshly-delivered turd, once his odor became apparent... much to the relief of the American people !

Re-visiting Dugout Doug in Korea : The Great One had no real plan for winning the Korean war - other than launching a pre-emptive nuclear strike on the Korean peninsula against the Chinese - who were, at the time,rather closely allied to the nuclear armed Russians. The Big Mac was perfectly willing to risk WWIII-whether the President liked it or not-and it was pretty generous of HST to let him retire with honor-something that was not apparent to the Media, or the American public at the time.

By the way, it was NOT up to Truman to dictate the course of the war, but the United Nations.Korea was a UN boondoggle from start to "finish", and the negotiated cease fire was a very "UN" kind of ending- ( Translation: War UNending.)