Jon Spencer wrote:
> How? Would they have built 30 million junks and sailed across the oceans? Er, no. All they had to do was cross the Yalu River. By "down our throats" I meant the Allies -- the US, the South Koreans, the Canadians and the Australians. > > All that we really needed to do was to destroy the bridges and keep them out > of commission, and we would have been OK. That's what pontoon bridges are for. The Yalu is not a swift-flowing river and is today a smuggler's paradise, for getting Russian-made goods out of Mongolia, across NE China and into N. Korea. > As always, dictators only > threaten when it is to their advantage, and seldom if ever our of pure > ideological reasoning. > Nobody does anything out of ideology anymore. Bush used Iraq to gain control of the Senate. Period. Watch: there won't be a war -- Iraq will blink. > > But it doesn't really matter, does it? Macarthur was right in his opinion, > and wrong in his disobedience. > Hence the old saying that war is too important to be left to the generals. As a civil servant myself I've seen times when political decisions were made which ran counter to my advice, or the advice of my boss or colleagues. But once you know all the facts you can at least understand why the politician did what he did, even if on a professional level you don't agree. But we're civil *servants* -- our job is to implement a political program, not the other way around. Ditto the military. As von Clausewitz said, war is diplomacy by other means. > > Jon > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Marc A. Schindler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 11:20 AM > Subject: Re: [ZION] Truman (was Taliban in pakistan) > > Except that the war wasn't being waged under the US Constitution, and as > Gary has > pointed out, if the UN had pushed too hard or threatened to use nuclear > weapons, > all of Red China would have been down our throats. > > "John W. Redelfs" wrote: > > > After much pondering, Gary Smith favored us with: > > >We can attack individuals for the choices they made through hindsight, or > > >we can realize that such decisions are complicated. Chaos theory states > > >that a butterfly flapping its wings today in China can cause storms in > > >America in two weeks. Do we condemn Truman for limiting the Korean war, > > >yet then you condemn George W Bush for seeking to extend the war on > > >terrorism to Iraq? Just where is the consistency? > > > > Truman asked MacArthur to lose a war. Truman should have been hanged for > > high treason against the Constitution. --JWR > > > > > //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > // > > /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// > > /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// > > > //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > / > > > > -- > Marc A. Schindler > Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada -- Gateway to the Boreal Parkland > > "Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will > pick > himself up and continue on" - Winston Churchill > > Note: This communication represents the informal personal views of the > author > solely; its contents do not necessarily reflect those of the author's > employer, > nor those of any organization with which the author may be associated. > > //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > // > /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// > /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// > //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > / > > ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// > /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// > ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > -- Marc A. Schindler Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada -- Gateway to the Boreal Parkland “Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on” – Winston Churchill Note: This communication represents the informal personal views of the author solely; its contents do not necessarily reflect those of the author’s employer, nor those of any organization with which the author may be associated. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ==^^=============================================================== This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^^===============================================================
