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On August 15, 1945 Truman's Chief of Staff, George Marshall issued General Order No 1 dividing Korea in half and ceding North Korea to the Russians. This was done despite the 1943 Cairo Conference when it was announced that Korea should be free and independent.
When Joe McCarthy questioned Marshall's motives for this and other Cold War enabling decisions, the US commies defended Marshall and smeared McCarthy.

There are so many issues about postwar history that need re-examining in the light of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the consequent (brief but important) opening to examination of its former secret police and intelligence files, and the declassification of the Venona cables. On this occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Korean War armistice (in which war one of my mother's cousins was killed in action), we need to re-examine the role the Truman Administration's policies had in the communist victory in China and the subsequent all-out communist attack on South Korea. The role of George C. Marshall in particular needs to be looked at once again. The "verdict of history" is still not in, and people like you, me, and Ann Coulter, among others, are going to continue asking embarrassing questions about the Cold War---the same ones that were asked 50 years ago, and "shouted down"---until we get some truthful answers.

Not just the collapse of the Soviet Union and the opening of its files, but the collapse of the Leftist revisionist apologist facade at the point of the medieval seige engines including the coultrix.

The history of all hitherto existing post-war political divisions must now be examined anew.

Forrestal's death made way for Louis Johnson to become the Secretary of Defense to emasculate U.S. forces in Korea.

Truman prevented McArthur from pursuing the Chinese, relieved him of command, and the bloody "police action" proved a three-year exercise in futility.

The Soviets armed the NKs; the Chinese provided the leadership cadres with veterans of the Long March.

The U.S. was bloodied and humiliated--by placing the United Nations above it as arbiter of policy.

The acts of betrayal which began in the Truman administration, have ripples in the actions of the Carter and Clinton administrations.

These waters must be made safe before the next surprise a la the 1998 Taepodong over Japan.

The Berlin Airlift ran from June 1948 to Sept.1949. It was a hugely expensive operation that involved almost 300,000 air flights and a loss of lives to bring in supplies to Soviet-blocked Berlin.

Was it Truman or Marshall that set up this disaster? At the end of the war America was the most powerful country in the world and yet our government officials ceded the Soviets all the territory surrounding Berlin which was then blockaded against us. Even food was denied entry into Berlin by the commies.

The dirty fingerprints of the liberal's darling Marshall are all over this very expensive military tactical error of giving the Soviets power in Germany they did not deserve. The failed haberdasher and political hack appears to only be a front man in the crusade to hand most of the world over to the communists.

Would there have even been a Cold War if honest men had been in charge in Washington?