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American intervention in Korea
- Thread starter Spiderman
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LionLooking
Member
Just so you know, 18 nations fought in the Korean War - it wasn't just America
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
The job will need to be finished in order to find out.Did American involvement in the Korean war accomplish the greater good in your opinion?
Spiderman
Veteran Member
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
That's up to Kimmy. I think Trump will give him a " bloody nose" though.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Hardly. It was the North Korean Communists that started the war by invading South Korea by crossing the 38th parallel equipped with Soviet armor and weaponry.
The US intervention was to aid South Korea in pushing the Reds back out of South Korea.
Subduction Zone
Veteran Member
Well, he was right to more than a point. Yes, we needed to get in when North Korea invaded. Our mistake was to try to eliminate North Korea as a country. The eviction of North Korea from South Korea was amazingly rapid. The retreated at least as fast as they initially advanced. We got cocky. We pushed back. In fact my father was involved at that point. He was a Marine and was in the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir:
Battle of Chosin Reservoir - Wikipedia
Percentage wise it was one of the highest percentage of casualties in the history of the Marines. It was a Pyrrhic victory for the Chinese, they had far worse casualties than we had.
In hindsight if we had stopped at the original border, which is roughly where the war ended, we would have avoided over 90% of the casualties that we had.
That would be the greatest if them two could duke it out.
Yeah, I bet you're not South Korean.
Rephrase it as unnecessary TO YOU seems more fitting.
Hindsight is 20/20.
If US was successful in its goal, then I bet lots of North Koreans would be very grateful today.
Subduction Zone
Veteran Member
It was incredibly ignorant on our part to assume that China would allow an ally on their border to be eliminated.
Grandliseur
Well-Known Member
The powers that be should have gone with the MacArthur plan, nuke the Chinese into going back to their own and thus having cleaned up that mess. We would have had a different world if done. No NK, no belligerent China, etc.
LionLooking
Member
I think the USSR would have retaliated.
That's right, a very different wordl. A nuclear waste ground in fact.
socharlie
Active Member
it was not positive for American soul, it pushed it toward psychopathic state of carelessness...Did American involvement in the Korean war accomplish the greater good in your opinion?
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
The way it's looking, it just might be the case.
I think we should invoke Queensberry rules instead of putting other people's lives on the line.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Yep. Still raging on pieces of paper.
Still Kimmy's doing pretty good job of bombing his own country.
Flankerl
Well-Known Member
Huh? The PRC didn't have nuclear weapons till the late 60s and the USSR was a paper tiger when it came to nuclear weapons.
They could hardly transport them inside the USSR, let alone use them for an attack.
The US could've nuked anyone without repercussions.