The second I heard the news of I’m being relieved from my generalr position I was totally shocked and disappointed… I do not take the actions I have done for no reasons, I believe that everyone in the war have their own rules to do and decide about the next action he or she’s going to do. And to be honest I have always thought about the country.
Every general, commander and even soldiers at the front line sacrifices their life to fight for their country (mostly soldiers), why do you think they volunteered to join in this dangerous duty? They want to get the badges or money after the war? No! They fight because they feel that they each have responsibility to protect the people in their own country and to serve their country and this includes me.
I’ve fought in the First World War and got 13 medals of bravery, which means that I have more experience of war than you do! If you can’t even trust your army’s general then who would you trust? War is always unpredictable; a movement or even a word in a speech could affect the situation, so we have to predict what might happen next and try preventing it from happening before it creates more difficulties to end a war.
In my own rule book I have to complete everything that is done by me and not leaving them to somebody else. It is my responsibility to finish the war in Korea, I have to stop communism from spreading further and further around the world which will be a threat to America. Soon after I have announced that I am going to attack the Chinese you immediately decided to reduce the amount of resources, are you afraid of them? They turned to fight against us to help communist take over South Korea so we should strike back without any concern.
Disappointing I should say about your decision Truman… We could have stopped the spread of communist and lead those communist countries back to capitalism; this might make more Americans killed but it worth us to play a last card.
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