9thIDdoc
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You call defending yourself when attacked "unnecessary"?Once again you take the simplistic approach we used in Vietnam that whoever killed more of the other guy wins.Apparently you can't read either. My earlier post:MacArthurs arrogance screwed the pooch in Korea just like it did in the Philippines. Nobody could tell MacArthur anything.For a while till MacArther out flanked the assholes and was kicking their asses right back across the border until a democommie asshole of a president pulled him up short and fired him.Damn boy, are you ever ignorant of history.f the government had sent in the military in a completely unrestricted, full scale war on North Korea, we could have easily flattened and defeated North Korea in a matter of... maybe a month.
That is what Gen MacArthur said.
In a matter of about a month, his forces swept north of the 39 th parallel and chased the N Koreans all the way to the Yalu River.
That is when the Chinese forces came in and swarmed our unsuspecting forces and drove us back south of the 39th parallel. Ended up killing 50,000 American forces.
We wanted to avoid the same mistake in Vietnam
Which is only because they retreated. If you follow up on what happened after this, every time the UN forces stood their ground, and fought, they slaughtered the Chinese.
Especially the Chinese of army of the 1950s, was in fact a peasant army. They were not hardly trained at all.
The Chinese forces overwhelmed us. We ran for our lives
If we had let Patton have his way the USSR wouldn't have existed for long and if we'd let Mcarthur have his way Red China would have been a long forgotten footnote by now too. Both were stopped by a democommie asshole excuse for a president, Truman who was afraid of his own shadow.
He was warned that his invasion of the north would draw in China. He laughed at the threat and laughed at China. His arrogance cost the US 50,000 lives
Truman should have fired him sooner
US Deaths:
Hostile: 33,739
Non-Hostile: 2,835
Total In-Theatre: 36,574
US Wounded in Action - 103,284
Other Casualties by Country (killed and missing)
Source: Encyclopedia Britannica
South Korea - (217,000 military, 1,000,000 civilian)
North Korea - (406,000 military, 600,000 civilian)
China - (600,000 military)
If you could read you might note that: USA KIA's= 33,739
North Korea KIA's=406,000
China KIA's =600,000
Find someone to do the math but we clearly kicked some serious ass and that without nukes which we would have been more than justified to use.
In Vietnam we killed and captured a few hundred more Chinese without even bothering to go looking for them. They just weren't ready to face those kind of losses again.
It was MacArthurs decision to ignore warnings not to invade north of the 38th parallel and instead proceed to the Yalu River that brought in the Chinese and led to a full out war.
Yes, we killed many more Chinese than they killed us, but we engaged in an unnecessary war that ended up where it started.....at the 38th parallel
We were in South Korea to protect it from invasion and we kicked the invading forces out and accomplished our mission. We won;they lost. End of story.