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Barack Obama, the new Chamberlain : Comments

By Jonathan J. Ariel, published 6/3/2015

Many not caught up in the cult of Obamania and who read history can see parallels between Obama and Chamberlain and between Iran and Nazi Germany.

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YEBIGA,

You managed to find those Chinese in Korea yet?
Posted by Is Mise, Monday, 9 March 2015 4:09:09 PM
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Those who compare Barack Obama with Neville Chamberlain would prefer him to act like Anthony Eden. But most people recognise how disastrous that would be.
Posted by Aidan, Monday, 9 March 2015 4:24:11 PM
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Misse
Chinese in Korea ?
No idea what you are babbling about
I must have missed something
I was discussing US addiction to war
Try to keep up
Posted by YEBIGA, Monday, 9 March 2015 5:55:53 PM
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How about the Soviet / Russian love of it, you may not be interested in war but it is interested in you. The non-stop whines about proxy wars their side ended up losing, the hammer and sickle was crashing and slashing there to start with.
Posted by McCackie, Monday, 9 March 2015 6:23:38 PM
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Yebega,

Your'e having me on, no one who has presumably read anything about the Korean War could not know that without the intervention of the Chinese there would be no North Korea.
Posted by Is Mise, Monday, 9 March 2015 6:48:43 PM
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The discussion about Korea is somewhat off topic, but if it must be discussed there should at least be a sound historical basis for it. Like all wars, the Korean War did not start in a vacuum. Of considerable importance was American support for the Kuomintang during the civil war in China. When the Nationalists lost, the Americans sent warships to what was then called the Formosa Strait to prevent the communists from completing the victory. That was hugely influential in Chinese attitudes as the U.S. continually made threats against the new Chinese government.
Korea was dived along the 38th parallel at Yalta in 1945, partly as part a division of spheres of influence in the post war period. North Korea sought to reunite the country when it invaded the south in 1950. The Chinese were not involved. They did not cross the Chinese Korean border until after the U.S. and its allies had crossed into North Korea and we're heading for the Chinese border. McArthur had made plenty of threats against China and a large faction of the U.S. administration, including Truman, wanted to use nuclear arms against China.
As is well known, American belligerence to the Beijing government continued until there was a minor breakthrough with Kissinger and Nixon in 1972-73. It continues to this day in different formats.
Most serious historians think that if the Americans had been willing to adopt a sensible attitude to the Mao government in 1949-50 then the Korean War might never have happened. Unfortunately we live with the consequences of that stupidity to this day.
Posted by James O'Neill, Monday, 9 March 2015 6:50:06 PM
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