I hate to say it, but Douglas MacArthur was right. We should have wiped out this regime when we had the chance.
Yup. And somehow Truman is made out to be the hero for standing up to him.
Not only that, China wouldn’t be the near super-power that they are today. They would still be the backwards communist country before Truman’s boneheaded decision.
True, except that China intervened.
To win the battle might have been to lose the war. We never let the military have its own head. That was constitutionally forbidden. Better that a president could call it short than to have the guy who only has a hammer treat every problem as a nail.
Our problem is now, not then. A mad man is there who is not merely content to make his own country miserable.
MacArthur was right about a lot of things. Patton too.
And then we repeated that mistake in Gulf War I.
"When will they ever learn...?"
“I hate to say it, but Douglas MacArthur was right. We should have wiped out this regime when we had the chance.”
MacArthur wanted to cross the Yalu River (which separates North Korea from China) and engage the Chinese. Knocking China on it’s a$$ would have lead to a unified Korea, but Truman, like most Democrats was a chicken $hit.