[Sgt_Schultze]

I can’t have that much exposure to leftist repetition. Did this article conclude W is a failure because bin laden is still on the run? Has the far-left noted their hero FDR didn’t get Hitler or Hirohito? Doesn’t that make FDR a failure in the same way

[Scarchin]

What I took out of the article is that lawyers and politicians are fighting the war from their desks. I didn’t read it as a partisan article.

[syriacus]

Has the far-left noted their hero FDR didn’t get Hitler or Hirohito? Doesn’t that make FDR a failure in the same way

Truman didn't get rid of North Korean dictator Kim il-Sung, who invaded South Korea in 1950, either.

But, mostly, Truman must shoulder the blame for the deaths* of 30,000 Americans whom he sent to re-liberate South Korea in the last 30 months of his presidency (July 1950-January 1953).

We previously had troops in place in S. Korea at the end of WWII, just as we had troops in W. Germany, W. Berlin and Japan.

Truman's 1949 withdrawal of those troops from S. Korea, was a mistake of monumental proportions.**

Odds are, there would have been no Korean War if Truman would have kept the US troops in the young and unstable Korea in 1949.

The stuck-on-stupid Democrats want to repeat Truman's 1949 mistake in Iraq.

* Many of these brave young people died because they were unprepared, undermanned, and under-supplied. Harry ("The buck stops here") Truman had slashed the defense budget down to the bone.

**Millions of Koreans were displaced and tens of thousands were killed because Truman prematurely withdrew our troops from their country.