In fact, the NK had easily won most of their initial battles with us. Truman's Secretary of Defense, Louis Johnson, had not only virtually disarmed our ground forces, he had forced a change of mind-set for their training, resulting in an army much more prepared to be friendly garrison troops than to fight for their lives against a fearsome and vicious enemy.
Indeed all the nonsense of containment, detente, peaceful coexistence and the like needed the leadership of Ronald Reagan to produce victory.
Goldwater wanted the same thing, but as I learned going door to door for him in 1964, the undershirt white trash wanted the welfare state of the War on Poverty.
The hudna or strategic truce of Hamas has enabled it to manufacture 1,000 short-range missiles.
Every day delayed in taking out the terrorist groups headquartered in Damascus and Teheran enables them to plan the next terrorist strike on CONUS--they are the shock troops for Hitlery.
Three steps forward, two steps back.
The islamo-communist alliance, rust and cockroaches never sleep.