"Harry.Krause" wrote in message
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Bert Robbins wrote:
"thunder" wrote in message
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On Thu, 05 May 2005 19:05:23 +0000, NOYB wrote:



Of course. And that's one of the reasons why Truman didn't allow
MacArthur to push past the 38th parallel, once he had driven the N.
Koreans back to it.

Uh, you may want to consider reading a little about the Korean War. We
did push past the 38th parallel, way past. China didn't enter the war
until we were approaching the Yalu River. Oh, and MacArthur may have
been
a great General, but he forgot, in this country, the President is the
Commander in Chief..


The problem with McArthur is he didn't spend enough time in the US.

Truman fired McArthur.


Why didn't we send ground forces north of the 17th parallel? Why didn't
we bomb the hell out of the North with our B-52's?

LOL, perhaps it is because the B-52 wasn't quite yet in our inventory.


This section is talking about the B-52's in Vietnam and they were
operation and in operational use. The problem was that we had the
ChiCom's and the Soviets to worry about. Vietnam was part of the global
war between the "West" and the Soviet Bloc. Johnson blinked.

This from a marine corps reserve behavioral problem who couldn't get an
overseas billet?

And just how many of the USMC reserves were activated in the early '80's and
which were sent over seas?

The ATC issue doesn't count because many military Air Traffic Controllers
where activated to man the towers to keep the plans flying.