Mr. Truman's War
Yesterday was the 56th anniversary of the start of the Korean War, in which my grandfather served, I am proud to say.

Antiwar.com links to this article, which concludes that "in a country at war so often and for so long and with so many nations as is the United States, we risk seeing the phenomenon of the Forgotten War becoming a norm, rather than an anomaly:"

Remembering the Forgotten War: As tensions escalate between the U.S. and North Korea, Americans should recall the anniversary of the conflict as yet another misguided foreign intervention.

Here are two excerpts:

Liberals like to play up the virtues of internationalism in waging war. They decry unilateralism.

It was Democrat Harry S. Truman, working with the UN, however, who launched the Cold War that would finally make so many leftists come to despise US military power. Much of the opposition to the Korean War came from isolationists and non-interventionists of the Old Right; most of the mainstream left supported its partisan in office and his multilateral intervention in Korea.

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Ask a liberal if he hates Bush more than Truman. Hiroshima and Nagasaki alone should qualify Truman as one of the worst presidents of all time. The fact that he, unlike any other president who presided over the conclusion of a major war, went and launched another one – thus inaugurating 40 years of horrifying Cold War – speaks volumes as to how damaging he was to American peace and liberty, and it indicates that Bush isn’t as singularly evil as some of his more partisan detractors would like to believe.

Of Mr. Truman, all I have to say is, "Worse than Bush."