If General MacArthur had not had to report to a President Harry (S for nothing) Truman we wouldn’t have lost the war in Korea. In short, we’d be far better off had Harry continued selling hats in Missouri.
Of course we’d have had someone other than FDR occupying the White Hut, and the depression would have ended quicker and we wouldn’t have had to save Europe from Hitler.
If we hadn’t allowed Stalin to take over Eastern Europe and drove his mongoloid troops back to their motherland, we wouldn’t have had a Korea, or a Vietnam or a Communist China. There would be no Castro in Cuber. There would be no Mexicans streaming over our border. Saddam Hussein would still be in Iraq making Jews and Christians happy and would still be terrorizing Iraq.
I believe that a ‘decisive’ victory in Europe would have caused Conservatives of the Right to be elected an re-elected as president and we would have an entirely different ideological make up in the now disgraced Congress. The SCOTUS would be mae up much differently as well.
As it is it appears that we deserve the poor excuse for a president and an American squatting in the White Hut and be in mortal danger of losing not only our nation, but our very lives.
Well Homer, those are interesting theorems, but in the end, it comes down to “woulda, shoulda, coulda”, however I will take issue with the whole Truman/MacArthur episode in Korea:
MacArthur did indeed want to go nuclear on the North Koreans and the Communist Chinese, and he continued to make waves after Truman rejected that advice, and Truman did so for a very good reason, one that MacArthur did not know, and neither did a whole lot of top brass at that time, and it was this:
The entire U.S. nuclear arsenal consisted of 13, and only 13 ‘Fat Man’ Nagasaki style atomic bombs, and those bombs had to be transported under great care (and risk) to whatever theater of operations they were designated for. Those 13 atomic bombs were the only thing we had to deter and stop if necessary, a full blown invasion of Western Europe by Stalin and the Warsaw Pact. If we had gone nuclear in Korea, the results would have been impossible to foresee, i.e., the Communist Chinese were more than willing to sacrifice millions upon millions of troops like cannon fodder, and the North Koreans were basically dancing to whatever tune was being played by Moscow and Beijing.
If America had become enmeshed in a Korean/Chinese land war, it would have presented Stalin with a perfect opportunity to seize the rest of Europe and there would have been damn little we could do about it. This was in an age that our deterrent was based solely on B-29/B-50 and the incoming B-36 strategic bombers (that had their own problems), and Truman had to act in the best strategic interests not only of the United States, but the entire Western Alliance.
And say what they will about Harry S Truman, when the decision had to be made to nuke the g*ddamned Japs, he pulled the trigger without hesitation and there were (and still are) many a G.I. and sailor that say “Thank God For Truman” for that very reason.
My Dad was one of ‘em.