Great Wars and Great Leaders by Ralph Raico

Author:Ralph Raico [Raico, Ralph]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Published: 2011-11-06T16:00:00+00:00

Needless to say, the situation has in no way improved, as the public schools grind out tens of millions of future voters to whom the notion, say, that James Madison had something to do with the Constitution of the United States would come as an uninteresting revelation.

The Korean War lasted three years and cost 36,916 American deaths and more than 100,000 other casualties. Additionally, there were millions of Korean dead and the devastation of the peninsula, especially in the north, where the U.S. Air Force pulverized the civilian infrastructure — with much “collateral damage” — in what has since become its emblematic method of waging war.54 Today, nearly a half-century after the end of the conflict, the United States continues to station troops as a “tripwire” in yet another of its imperial outposts.55

The indirect consequences of Truman’s “police action” have been equally grim. Hans Morgenthau wrote:

The misinterpretation of the North Korean aggression as part of a grand design at world conquest originating in and controlled by Moscow resulted in a drastic militarization of the cold war in the form of a conventional and nuclear armaments race, the frantic search for alliances, and the establishment of military bases.56

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