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Jeffrey Lord is blaming this crisis on John Kennedy and Dean Acheson (Original Post)
DemocratSinceBirth
Aug 2017
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Zoonart
(11,891 posts)1. Because they never own anything.
shraby
(21,946 posts)2. That's a stretch of the imagination! When he pointe a finger, 3 fingers are pointing
back at him.
BannonsLiver
(16,537 posts)3. He's famous for his tortured historical whataboutisms
And sometimes it's such a freak show I can't look away.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)4. Why not Truman and Eisenhower?
roamer65
(36,747 posts)5. I'd love to slap the shit out of him.
Irritating fuck.
Better still beating him up with the remains of Kellyanne.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)6. Not FDR? Remember: LINCOLN WAS A REPUBLICAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
spanone
(135,914 posts)8. asshole.
yardwork
(61,736 posts)9. Really.
gilligan
(194 posts)10. Really?
Blame it on Our. For firing MacArthur.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)12. No, MacArthur fucked up.
He was told that going all the way to the Yalu would provoke the Chinese to get involved because of having US troops right on their border, and he didn't listen.
Kim Il Sung was defeated. North Korea was functionally nonexistent. If MacArthur had listened to Truman what was left of North Korea would be a sliver of land, if anything.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)11. Why not blame MacArthur?
If he'd just listened to Truman and done as he was instructed to, and not gotten so close to the Yalu river, North Korea as we know it today likely wouldn't exist.
Initech
(100,118 posts)13. WTF!!!! They own this shit!