[fortheDeclaration]

Actually, MacArthur overestimated Hapless Harry Truman’s manhood.

Oh, that's right, he wasn't caught flatfooted when a million Chinese came across the border!

He then ran to Truman and wanted him to nuke the Yalu!

But as Gen. Bradly stated, Korea was the wrong war, at the wrong time with the wrong enemy, so we were not going to start WWW3 there.

[BlackElk]

Actually, MacArthur proposed laying a radioactive cobalt strip between China and Korea to prevent the Chicoms from getting involved at all. Truman who, as a Senator, actually ran a “War Profiteer” investigation to punish US arms manufacturers for providing the wherewithal to win WWI, said no. Personally, I would say that, if we were justified morally in nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki and their civilian non-combatant populations, we had every right to nuke the Chicom army concentrations which had one rifle for every ten men in any event. Even Stalin was not vaguely equipped to retaliate. And, if Stalin thought he had the wherewithal and acted on that fantasy, he would not have died of natural causes and would have died more quickly.