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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 6405961, member: 101855&quot;]The issue with respect of MacArthur in Korea boiled down to this. MacArthur wanted to take the war to the North Koreans and clean them out. As a staunch anti-communist, I can sympathize with that objective, but were we ready to start World War III? It could have started right there because the Communist Chinese had already brought their troops in to save the North Korean Army and crazy, evil Stalin was in the wings in Russia.</p><p><br /></p><p>Truman called Korea “a police action” was not ready to begin a wider war. Therefore, when MacArthur sharply differed with the President, Truman relieved him. I think that Truman was correct because civilian control of the military is essential to our democracy. I point the many military coups that have occurred in history because the military got out of control.</p><p><br /></p><p>MacArthur came back and made his appeal to Congress in the famous “old soldiers never die” speech. There were those wanted him to run for president, but that eventually died down. Here is a button from the period.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1253715[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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