Posted on 04/23/2012 1:58:38 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
What makes you say it would be WW3?
The Chinese Communist were in power for only a few years and were still weak. The Republic of China would have been happy to help cause trouble on the mainland.
I like the way you think.
I’m gonna be watching you.
Good teacher, he really seems to care....about what I have no idea.
China was weak? They managed to send 250K+ troops over the border and caused us to fight a stalemate war. Ike wanted us out, even with the shipment of a couple of “Atomic” cannons to Japan in a not so secret move. If we went into Manchuria, the Russians would have enter into it also, don’t forget their “Honcho’s” were flying the Chinese Mig 15s and they too had the Atomic weapons and B-29 copies. Forget Nationalist China going back on the main land. With what?
The US home front was not ready for another world conflict either. Our former troops were establishing families and starting businesses, they had enough. The will to get into another war was not there. It was time to buy a new car, a Levittown house, a TV set and have lots of babies.
Read the accounts about Korea, there were no real victories. We weren’t even prepared for it. We sent occupation troops there from Japan, and their equipment, i.e. radios, vehicles, tanks, etc. were not in the best of shape due to the neglect of PM. Ike knew war and its cost both in equipment and manpower. He had vision, there was no need to push North again, get back to the old lines and hold it. NK is like a spoiled child who wants its way, and will go into a tantrum to get it.
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