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Old October 15th, 2006, 09:07 PM

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Default Re: OT: A Nuclear North Korea

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Possum said:
Just goes to show you, Douglas Macarthur was right all along.
Yes & no...

If you mean bombing Manchuria (conventional or nuclear), probably not. However, the current situation does stem from our failure to apply the first rule of Jacksonian warmaking back in Mac's day. We should have mobilized whatever level of force it took - even a WWII-scale effort - to push the Chinese back across the Yalu. Then all of Korea would today be like SK, and we wouldn't have this problem at all. Odds are relations with China would be the same today, too.
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