Posted on 06/25/2004 12:02:52 AM PDT by snippy_about_it
And with this blessing North Korea attacked South Korea just five months later. Another success for Truman's doctrine of containment.
Another success for Truman's doctrine of containment.
AFAIK, no policy of "containment" has ever worked for long.
I give up . . . and I need to "fall asleep tonight". What's AFAIK an acronym for? This better be good! ;^)
As Far As I Know. :-)
LOL.
IIRC, AFAIK is "As Far As I Know". ;-)
Geez Louise, I wasn't even close . . . but then . . . (thud) . . . zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
We tried to let you know ASAP, because IMO, I thought we should hurry so you could get some sleep.
We can see it. Thanks.
Evening Victoria. Graphic looks fine. :-)
What did you think it stood for? Curious minds want to know.
The definitive write-off of Korea as an important strategic area came when the Joint Chiefs of Staff asserted that no military security guarantee should be extended to the Republic of Korea because such action would risk a major war in an area where Russia would have nearly all the natural advantages. As a result, the President, on 4 April 1948, approved a policy that stated: "The United States should not become so irrevocably involved in the Korean situation that an action taken by any faction in Korea or by any other power in Korea could be considered a 'casus belli' for the United States." From that moment, Korea was of secondary importance to U.S. planners and policy makers. [22] General MacArthur had been relieved of his responsibility for defending Korea when the last American tactical units had been withdrawn from that country in 1949.
In mid-1949 General Omar N. Bradley, then Army Chief of Staff, challenged the national policy toward Korea. On the eve of the withdrawal of the last American combat troops from the peninsula, General Bradley suggested taking the Korean question again to the National Security Council. He feared that U.S. withdrawal might be followed by an invasion from the north. He had had his staff review the courses of action open to the United States in such an eventuality, and as a result he recommended that, if an invasion took place, the U.S. nationals be evacuated and the aggression immediately be presented to the United Nations Security Council as a threat to the peace. A U.N. composite military force might be considered as a last resort. [23]
Phil's phootnote: Why, Uncle Joe wouldn't take advantage of this namby-pamby admission of weakness, now, would he?
[See also, Glaspy, April: "Help yourself to Kuwait, Saddam, it's just a reeeejunul affair."]
The constitution was revised during the 10th term of the 5th Supreme People's Assembly (held in September 1998) to include a new preface promulgating Kim Il-sung as the "Supreme Leader Eternal". The revised constitution was officially termed the 'Kim Il-sung Constitution', which became the epitome of the posthumous idolization process.
In fact many enlightened political leaders believe a constitution to be such a "living document".
The apparent french-Communist candidate for president, Jean-Fraud Kommie (Twinkie-Malaisechusetts), scolded the capitalist-imperialist-militarist running dogs of the decadent west for their dangerous illusions of "freedom"--
To combat the red X of the running dogs of imperialism, capitalism and militarism, crick.
LOL!
The definitive write-off of Korea as an important strategic area came when the Joint Chiefs of Staff asserted that no military security guarantee should be extended to the Republic of Korea because such action would risk a major war in an area where Russia would have nearly all the natural advantages.
We should have listened to Patton.
Jean-Fraud Kommie
I think that's the best name for him to date!
BTTT!!!!!!
Nice quotation, US Army sourced and all.
Too bad the politicians can't share more personally, more corporally, more physically, in the messes they make. I guess that power is never having to say you're sorry.
And State Department employees cannot be fired, even for a felony, even by a Secretary of State--Warren Christopher tried and was reversed by a court which ordered the employee's rehiring with back pay.
My modest proposal is to divert the next terror attack by hijacked aircraft into that eight-story nest of anti-Americanism.
O the humanity. Or not.
Evening Victoria
That's classified . . . code in.
[BS, he's stalling to avoid embarrasment]
Hey, I gotta read today's Foxhole. ;^)
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