Korean War Lessons

Dear Mr. President,

Many things can be learned from the Korean War. The first is it is an example of the U.S.'s goal to stop the spread of communism and to stop the spreading of Soviet power. The South Koreans were our allies because they hated communism. All we had to do to become involved was invoke the Truman Doctrine from 1947. This helped us win support in the U.N. We were able to get 17 other nations to help us support our operations in South Korea. Our forces were the majoirty of the force but that doesn't matter. We were able to trick the Soviets from vetoing the proposition by refusing to allow Communist China to vote and therefore this pissed the Soviets off so much they left the U.N. before the vote. This is an example of how stupid the communists are. We achieved our original goal. We liberated South Korea from the Communists. It was a stupid mistake to attack into North Korea and risk agitating China like we did to rid Korea of communists. MacArthur shouldn't have been allowed to invade. He overexurted our resources and this allowed the enemy to stike us where we were weak and push us backwards. He was an idiot and his actions caused the chinese to invade to help the North Koreans. Also he underestimated the Chinese and this cost us supplies and lives. Truman's descision to relieve MacArthur of his command was a good one because if MacArthur kept going he would have cost the allied forces more lives, money, and supplies. Also he could have started World War III if the Soviets became involved in the fighting. The lives lost in the war were immense for the size of the war. 1.4 million people were lost in the fighting military forces and civilians included. The war was worth the cost put on human life because this way not all of Asia was communist and if we needed a staging area to invade communist Asia we could land troops in friendly South Korea.