Sooner in Tampa
7/1/2014, 02:46 PM
GREAT article (http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obamas-not-the-anti-bush-hes-the-anti-truman/2014/06/30/fe5ed276-004b-11e4-8fd0-3a663dfa68ac_story.html)
Imagine what Europe and the Pacific would look like if Truman had followed the Obama model and removed all U.S. forces from Germany, Japan and Korea. Does anyone imagine that South Korea would be an independent country and a democratic ally of the United States if U.S. troops had not been patrolling the Demilitarized Zone since 1957? Or that the Cold War would have ended with the peaceful collapse of the Soviet Union if America had not kept U.S. forces deployed in Europe since 1945?
Imagine what Europe and the Pacific would look like if Truman had followed the Obama model and removed all U.S. forces from Germany, Japan and Korea. Does anyone imagine that South Korea would be an independent country and a democratic ally of the United States if U.S. troops had not been patrolling the Demilitarized Zone since 1957? Or that the Cold War would have ended with the peaceful collapse of the Soviet Union if America had not kept U.S. forces deployed in Europe since 1945?