KR> i do seem to recall, although i wasn't that old at the time, that it
KR> started off as a korean civil war with the south getting the rough end
KR> of the stick. the un cavalry charged in and turned the tide, and that
KR> would have been that if mcarthur had left well alone at the border,

BL> You have it slightly wrong...

You mangle it completely. Again.

BL> Historically, northern Korean falls under the
BL> influence of China, southern Korea under Japan.

Crap, thats completely fanciful.

BL> Northern Korea went communist and would have swept through all of Korea.

More crap, just like when the same claim was made about Vietnam.

BL> The Yanks saw a communist Korea as a threat to Japan, a way
BL> for the Russians to get into the Pacific through Vladivostok.

Pigs arse they did, it had nothing to do with russia.

BL> Look at the map.

Yeah, notice the large amount of China that is ALREADY bordering
the Pacific atleast as much as Korea does. Poor old Bob.

BL> The UN set the 38th Parallel as the notional border,
BL> beyond which communism must not cross. They crossed.

Pity its got sweet fuck all to do with russia. Pity it had sweet
fuck all to do with 'the yanks' it was a UN operation. Poor old Bob.

BL> The UN charged in to stop the communists and were basically driven
BL> into the sea. Seoul hung on. At that stage, the West had lost all
BL> of Korea except for two beach heads at Pusan (far south) and Inchon
BL> (near Seoul). The MiG15 was knocking the shit out of Mustangs and
BL> that dopey Lockheeed jet whose name escapes me. Tough times in Asia.

BL> This is what I meant when I said that Koreans were tough soldiers.

Odd that the southern ones werent tough enough to stop the northern ones.
In fact even the Vietnamese did a better job between themselves. Poor old Bob.

BL> I still wonder what would have happened if the US had tested the new
BL> H-bomb on Peking rather than Bikini atoll, the way Macarthur wanted.

Mao basically wished they had done. He claimed that that that
would have suited the chinese fine. Corse he wasnt actually
notorious for being able to get that stuff right either.

BL> The powers in the world today are the same as they have always been:
BL> England, Germany, France, Russia, Islam, China, Japan, and USA.

Poor old Bob, PomLand has gone down the tubes forever.

BL> Spain fell off the board, and Holland,
BL> and it looks like England may go next,

They've been gone for a long time. Poor old Bob.
Furiously living in the past, as usual.

BL> But we see the main players as Europe, Russia, Islam, China, Japan, USA. To
BL> me, China is the most dangerous of all, Communist and growing rich besides.

Odd that even Vietnam managed to piss them
off in very short order. Poor old Bob.

Hasnt even notice that the world has changed
forever on the likes of Japan either.

BL> I think in 20 more years we may be saying
BL> that Macarthur could have stopped it.

Likely you do think that. Just like those senile old farts that rave
on about the danger of buying anything Japanese, coz you will be fucked
for spare parts when the next war with Japan happens. Poor old Bob.
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