“Thank you Harry Truman, for firing one of the greatest Generals in US history, which would have not only unified Korea, but would have turned China into a peaceful republic as well.”
Umm, one of the greatest generals? MacArthur? I don’t think so. Truman had no choice but to fire Dugout Dug. He was an egomaniac who was not only ignoring Truman but Truman’s Joint Chief of Staff as well. He was about to take the U.S. into a war with China that we were not prepared to fight and had no desire to fught so soon after WWII. Bringing this discussion forward to today; other than some special op’s insertions there will be no large military operations on the Asia mainland. To do so would play right into North Korea’s and certainly China’s wheelhouse. To entice the U.S. to fight a traditional land war of big divisions against big divisions would be an answer to their wildest wettest dreams. Ain’t gonna happen.
>Umm, one of the greatest generals? MacArthur? I don’t think so.
He was the best General the US had after Patton was murdered.
> Truman had no choice but to fire Dugout Dug. He was an egomaniac who was not only ignoring Truman but Truman’s Joint Chief of Staff as well.
MacArthur is the reason Japan didn’t end up half Communist. Truman instructed MacArthur to prepare to give the northern half the country to Russia. MacArthur leaked it to the press to prevent it. Harry Truman was a damn Communist sympathizer.
>He was about to take the U.S. into a war with China that we were not prepared to fight and had no desire to fught so soon after WWII.
China attacked us. It was cowardly and cost us a lot of men not to use air power to knock China out of the war. I think the real reason we failed to do so was Truman’s support of the Communist Chinese.