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Originally Posted by Michael The Disciple
We had nuclear weapons then. The Chinese and N Koreans had none. Now the Chinese have hundreds of them and the Koreans are beginning to stockpile.
The mindset is also very different. Then many Americans loved their country and were ready and willing to die for it. A lot has changed since then. Yes we are fighting two wars right now but neither of them together are causing near as many casualties as Korea.
Our wars now will look small compared to a war like we are discussing here. I say leave Iraq and Afghanistan. All we are doing there is propping up Islamic antichrist governments. Not one more American should die for them.
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Before we got to Afghanistan there were dozens of bases used for the arming and training of Muslim terrorists to attack America. The attacks on 9/11/2001 were launched from those bases. We had to take that safe haven away from the terrorists.
The fact that safe havens remain in the adjacent "Tribal Territories" of Pakistan represents a further problem.
Iraq is a slightly different matter. Iran is the real problem. They have funded and have built up three proxy armies in the region that are actively fighting against Western targets while also brow beating the local populations into accepting militant fundamentalism that will only breed more jihadis.
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Originally Posted by Michael The Disciple
Strategically speaking these wars will have given us training and insight for bigger wars but we need as a nation to regroup and begin to rethink our future with N.Korea, China, and Russia.
However spiritually my thinking is that YHWH may well use them as his battle axe in judgment against America. We shall see.
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Strategically, we had nukes in 1950. Tactically however,
we didn't have any as evidenced by MacArthur's failed attempt to deploy and use them. Ticky-tack point perhaps... but if you aren't really going to use them what's the point in saying you've got them? When the other guy calls your bluff - your boys are left standing out in the field without their most powerful weapons available.
(I'm not advocating nuclear war here. I'm just questioning the lines of reasoning behind saying America even has any tactical nuclear deterrent).
Also, on the battlefield we were grossly unprepared in 1950. We'd just spent the previous 5 years working very hard to disarm and get back to a "peace time" economy. American forces were cut to ribbons as they fell back on Pusan.