Posted on 05/25/2018 6:13:37 AM PDT by luke1825
“I shall go to Korea.”
That’s what President Donald Trump should have said.
Instead he pulled out of the North Korean summit altogether. Too bad.
Had he stayed in he would have sounded just like President Dwight Eisenhower all those years ago when Ike, as a presidential candidate, electrified the public when he promised to go to Korea and end the Korean Wa
(Excerpt) Read more at lowellsun.ma.newsmemory.com ...
And that’s a good thing.
Best. President. Evah.
Yet, these liberal idiots supported Obama’s approach to aiding the NORK to get nukes.
Idiots.
Uh! It's still going, isn't it!
Gee. So it would be a “good thing” to just “sound like” a previous president, eh?
Instead of, maybe, actually negotiating from strength like the current president?
Had he stayed in he would have sounded just like President Dwight Eisenhower all those years ago when Ike, as a presidential candidate, electrified the public when he promised to go to Korea and end the Korean
Some people should perhaps wait a day before jumping in giving advice without knowing anything about what is going on.
As for Ike, I wonder what the world would look like if he had allowed McArthur to kick China’s butt when we held all the cards.
But...but...but the Ike business worked out so well....
Yea. . right. . I’m sure when Trump reads this, he’ll tell his staff, “Damn it, that Peter whatshisname is right. . .make sure we call him after every thing I do and get his feedback on what Peter thinks I shoulda, woulda coulda done.”
Eisenhower made his deal and gave in to the utterly exhausted Chinese army that was only a skeleton force after wasting its manpower through two years of frontal attacks. One good push would then have gone to the Yalu once again but this time there was no PLA force to be injected against our guys. Ike could have Ended it on much better terms with a minimum of effort. Ike was a righteous man but he was not Donald Trump.
Maybe you should have read the entire article.
With president Ike, as a general too, that meant an armed resolution. With President trump it doesn’t have that same weight.
Faced with stalled armistice talks, Ike considered using nuclear bombs against the Chinese Army in Korea. Fortunately, before that came to pass, Stalin died and the collective leadership that initially came to power in the USSR told China to agree to an armistice.
“Eisenhower made his deal and gave in to the utterly exhausted Chinese army that was only a skeleton force after wasting its manpower through two years of frontal attacks. One good push would then have gone to the Yalu once again but this time there was no PLA force to be injected against our guys. Ike could have Ended it on much better terms with a minimum of effort. Ike was a righteous man but he was not Donald Trump.”
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Bet the State Department, the embedded socialists, and Deep State had a lot to do with his decision. that may be the reason he warned us about them when he left office.
Yep.
Eggsachary. Advocating emulating a President’s actions from 60 odd years ago, and a completely different set of issues and dynamics, is foolish to the extreme.
Ha, as if the Lowell Mass. blog is smarter than Potus...
President Truman fired General Douglas MacArthur on April 11, 1951 and replaced him with General Mathew B. Ridgeway who had been placed in command of the 8th Army (Korea) on Dec 25, 1950 after the untimely death of General Walton Walker in a vehicle accident eerily similar to that of General George Patton five years earlier in WW II.
On April 14, 1951, General James Alward Van Fleet was sent to Korea to command the 8th U.S. Army and the Xth corps and all UN forces to relieve Matthew B. Ridgeway, who himself had replaced Douglas MacArthur 3 days earlier.
Ridgeway was promoted and sent to Germany to be Allied commander of all NATO forces.
Eisenhower became President on January 20, 1953, only six months before the end of the Korean “conflict” by armistice on July 27th 1953.
It is sad that one of the most difficult and bloody conflicts the United States was ever engaged in is virtually unknown to the American public.
I believe the lack of knowledge in the US of the conflicts of the 20th century to be intentional because it was political and military victory of freedom over international communism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walton_Walker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Ridgway
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Van_Fleet
“Some people should perhaps wait a day before jumping in giving advice without knowing anything about what is going on.”
That would be out of character for Chuckie and Nanners. Here’s hoping they continue to bloviate and they enjoy their daily plate of crow.
Korea is not “The Forgotten War”!
It is “The forgotten Victory”.
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