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"In my generation, this was not the first occasion when the strong had attacked the weak…Communism was acting in Korea just as Hitler, Mussolini, and the Japanese had acted ten, fifteen, and twenty years earlier. I felt certain that if South Korea was allowed to fall, Communist leaders would be emboldened to override nations closer to our own shores." ("The Korean War Quotes").
("Truman Doctrine (1947)").
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Letter from Truman to Rhee
Letter indicates the warm regard the two leaders and, by extension, the regard the nations have for each other.
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My dear Mr. President: Source (Rhee)
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"The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy."
-General Omar Bradley
(Kwon)
""Even if it were desirable, America is not strong enough to police the world by military force. If that attempt is made, the blessings of liberty will be replaced by coercion and tyranny at home. Our ideals cannot be exported to other lands by dollars and guns."
-Howard Buffet (Former U.S. House of Representative)
(Kwon)