Quote Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube
Having read the history, i'm inclined to form a different opinion. If we had followed his advice from the start, and carried the sea and air war into china and along china's coasts, we would have won the war.
Actually it would be more appropriate for you to say "the governments released history', or haven't you heard that Bush43 just stopped the release of documents from 1954?

To even conceive that we could have fought China conventionally and won is ignorance, arrogance and plain stupidity in a combination only someone that has never seen the films of that war can proclaim. I recall the first "Why we are here film", a Captain was standing before the board (screen), the view was from a ridge ... flairs were being fired ... it was all black and white. The wind was moving the grain in the fields .... the captain pointed out that the grain were men ... the Chinese, then all H broke loose in the film, and I for one knew I did not want to be at war in Korea.

Now, you can take your little chunks of what you think you know about the Korean "Police Action" and praise the lord your Mac, you can even think that somehow Mac was the good guy in committing us to war with China and Truman the bad guy because he didnot again drop the bomb. But, you really need to look at the reality of it - or atleast talk to someone that was in it that doesn't think of themselves a hero .... so much as a survivor. Survivors tell the truth, those that think themselves heroes for being there tend to bend it (the truth) ... they also tend to exaggerate in the need for the conflict or their value in it (or the value of it).

Still a few Korean War vets out there (quiet tho they be) go find one ... and if they say Mac was good ... Truman bad ... find a real one.