"Quasi-State of War" on Korean Peninsula as Tensions Escalate
@stubones49 wrote: I do remember A top, or THE top Russian Army General of that era, in his verbal memoirs, years later, recounting that the Chinese were pleading with the Russians that if they could...
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@Wereflea wrote: MacArthur wanted to nuke the north Koreans btw. Eisenhower fired him for his mouthing off about not getting his way. Read full topic
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@stubones49 wrote: MacArthur also stated that any American President that would commit any of our ground troops to A war in South East Asia needs his head examined- JFK took this advice seriously and...
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@LarryD3 wrote: To be exact: the Soviet Union was absent so the UN proposal was passed. Also, China at that time was represented by Taiwan, otherwise the Chinese too would've used their veto. Funny, I...
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@Wereflea wrote: Kissinger also was quoted as testifying before congress that a casualty rate of a 100 million would be acceptable in a nuclear war. He was testifying in the pro war capacity. I never...
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@stubones49 wrote: Absolute insanity- The kind of stuff one would hear from Curtis LeMay or Leslie Groves...That kind of takes back the "one good thing" I had to say for Henry- Read full topic
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@Wereflea wrote: I thought it might...lol Read full topic
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@stubones49 wrote: One ups-manship has played one heavy hand here- I guess you win and Henry loses......You know, I have always thought/felt that there is both some good and bad in all of us, but...
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@Wereflea wrote: I have never liked Kissinger since he spent years supposedly at the peace table and yet prosecuted the war vigorously and presumably was the architect of Nixon's bombing in Cambodia....
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@stubones49 wrote: I need to watch that movie again-It has been years and years-Yes, one very dangerous and Evil Man- I know JFK had A bad premonition of him and I can't find the passage, but Kennedy...
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@Wereflea wrote: It is still a hoot but probably less so for the younger generation. What a superhoot when it was new ! What a pisser! Kissinger was like a terminator. A unemotional sociopath who...
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@stubones49 wrote: Actually, I watched that movie at an age and education level that I know didn't fully appreciate it- I remember re-watching "Catch 22 about 10 years back and just loved the hell out...
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@Wereflea wrote: He was never stupid...lol... just sociopathic. He also had a reputation of being an expert political infighter. He made a point of developing and keeping powerful connections whenever...
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"Quasi-State of War" on Korean Peninsula as Tensions Escalate
@stubones49 wrote: Wereflea: One of those people that you wonder what the world would have been like if they hadn't been around. Excellent observation-One aerial look at the bomb craters of the "Plain...
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@stubones49 wrote: I loved the reaction from Kisssinger, who was to originally head up the 9-11 commission/inquiry when those New Jersey Wives of the faux 9-11 inquiry asked him about his business...
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@Wereflea wrote: We had these very deep examples of freedom and independence. We weren't afraid of freedom like we've become these days. Everywhere you looked we saw heroic examples of people doing...
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@stubones49 wrote: The sixties and even early 70s were hands down the very best years of my life- My favorite Mid-East News Correspondent, Robert Fisk summed up what you are speaking of quite...
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@stubones49 wrote: We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, someway or another, and some in South Korea too.… Over a period of three years or...
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@Wereflea wrote: I often try to understand how the young see their world and what they expect from the future. I am too old I think to get it right. They are resentful whereas we were angry. We...
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@stubones49 wrote: When I was younger, while going to College in the very early 70's I worked at Duty Free Shops at the Anch. Intern. Airport- I remember an older fellow worker from Japan one day...
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@stubones49 wrote: Fear, there is and has been so many fortunes made from fear- Fear of the Commies, Fear of the Blacks, Fear of the newly created and contrived "Terrorists"- ISIS is coming to town...
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@Wereflea wrote: Meanwhile the kid might shoot you because that's what he sees on TV. I live in a city and a few years ago I was struck by how many hit and run accidents were occuring. People would...
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@stubones49 wrote: Yea, I go out hiking and bicycling along the road in front of my house, down towards the lake and have had cars purposely crowd me- The thing I worry the most about is some idiot...
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@LarryD3 wrote: I do know very well the history of that region, hahaha. And yes, there was a report of a meeting between US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey and his South...
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@elkojohn wrote: `''Seoul refused to remove large loudspeakers set up along the border, which blast pro-South Korean messages.'' This is psy-ops -- the only purpose being to provoke a responsefrom the...
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