When Joe McCarthy questioned Marshall's motives for this and other Cold War enabling decisions, the US commies defended Marshall and smeared McCarthy.
There are so many issues about postwar history that need re-examining in the light of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the consequent (brief but important) opening to examination of its former secret police and intelligence files, and the declassification of the Venona cables. On this occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Korean War armistice (in which war one of my mother's cousins was killed in action), we need to re-examine the role the Truman Administration's policies had in the communist victory in China and the subsequent all-out communist attack on South Korea. The role of George C. Marshall in particular needs to be looked at once again. The "verdict of history" is still not in, and people like you, me, and Ann Coulter, among others, are going to continue asking embarrassing questions about the Cold War---the same ones that were asked 50 years ago, and "shouted down"---until we get some truthful answers.