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2018-04-29 China-Japan-Koreas

Panmunjom Declaration on Peace, Prosperity and Reunification of Korean Peninsula

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Posted by Fred 2018-04-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
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#1 I hope no one gets too excited about all of this. It could all change very quickly. Gen. Douglas MacArthur also thought he had achieved a "united Korea."

BTW, MacArthur was fired by a democrat.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-04-29 07:52|| 2018-04-29 07:52|| Front Page Top

#2 ...My answer to this would be the words of Ronaldus Magnus: "Trust, but verify."

Beosoeker, FWIW it's hard to avoid the conclusion that Democrat or Republican, whoever was President would have been fully justified in canning MacArthur. (Had Ike been President then - and he didn't like MacArthur at all - he probably would have 86'd him even sooner.)

Mac's intended actions weren't meant so much to win the war as punish the Chinese for having the colossal nerve to embarrass him, and he was starting to imply that he would do what he felt was tactically necessary, instead of following orders from Washington. MacArthur was never as good as his press agents made him out to be, and by firing him Truman did us a favor. YMMV, of course.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2018-04-29 09:08|| 2018-04-29 09:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Don't trust. Verify

Posted by Frank G 2018-04-29 09:49|| 2018-04-29 09:49|| Front Page Top

#4 MacArthur was never as good as his press agents made him out to be, and by firing him Truman did us a favor. YMMV, of course.

Agreed. I've always been a little cautious around men who smoked pipes.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-04-29 11:39|| 2018-04-29 11:39|| Front Page Top

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