Did the United States make a mistake by getting involved in the Korean War?

Question

38,000 American troops died in Korea.

Was the war a mistake?




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Answer 1

It is easy to look back and say yes it was a mistake. It's always easy to be a "Monday Morning Quarterback".
It was at the beginning of the Cold War and the Soviet Union was supplying arms, planes and Pilots to the North Koreans, and both were on a mission to "Communize" the world and they made that well known. It was a very unstable time, and since no one really knew what Stalin was capable of, it made sense. To have lost 38,000 brave men and women was tragic.
Though I am Republican, I do not place ANY blame on Harry S. Truman. (Dem.). He was a good and decent man, who was making decisions in uncharted waters.
Looking back? South Korea is a thriving ecomomy and North Korea is a toilet bowl with a poverty ridden economy, a Terrorist as a leader, who threatens the U.S. and other free world nations with Nuclear attack.
Some would say, the question was not "should we have gone to war", but "Why didn't we finish it"?

Answer 2

Premiere Josef Stalin vowed to spread communism world wide in an international revolution. President Harry Truman took him seriously on that threat and when communist North Korea suddenly invaded South Korea with Soviet and Red China consent, then Truman organized the U.N. and led a peace keeping mission to hem in communist expansion. The Korean pennisula has been a conduit for invading Japan and the pacific for over 800 years; and the free world could not tolerate a communist dagger - Korea - pointing at the heart of Japan. So the U.N peace keeping forces drove the communist North Koreans all the way back up to the Yalu river. General MacArthur wanted to flank them by entering China (without permission from the Chinese) and invade from the North. The communist government responded to this planned incursion by committing 600,000 screaming communist Chinese troops across the Yalu river driving back the U.N. peace keeping force where the U.N. made a stand at the 38th parallel, todays north/south border. The success was that communism was stopped at the 38th parallel and went no further.

Answer 3

North Korea had the south pushed back to the southern peninsula(the ocean, basicly) So if we didn't get involved, there would be another powerful communist country that hated us. No war is a mistake. Even now. I don't agree with the war in Iraq, but when someone talks about your mom you want to kick there *** right? Or you just might not like them, so you kick there ***. It's how the world goes, sadly enough.

Answer 4

Yes. I was there during the war and it was a stupid mistake. what did we gain for the loss in young men. We are still propping S. Korea up by teaching them to build autos and take American jobs away

Answer 5

No. It kept South Korea from becoming communist.

Answer 6

Nope, and it is still going on by the way. We are only in a cease fire agreement and have been since 1953.

Answer 7

it was a mistake like vietnam.. we WERE NOT ATTACKED