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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.

More for the blah, blah, blah file.

That file is sure filling up quickly!

Now, what does that have to do with the fact that the United States underestimated both the N.Koreans when we disarmed the S.Koreans of their heavy weapons (so they would not invade the N. Korea) and then made a statement that Korea was not put of the United States defense zone, giving a green light for the N.Koreans to invade?

And the Chinese, when after repeated warnings from the Chinese, we continued to move North and stretch our supply lines and were completly exposed when the Chinese hit us during the bitter cold, dealing the U.S. one of its worst military defeats.