Re: [Marxism] Long Live the North Korean Nuclear Program!

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My mother's cousin was very high up in the military medical establishment, 
possibly because he was a buddy of Eisenhower's son. He was part of a study 
group to decide whether to nuke N. Korea. The idea was rejected ONLY 
because the prevailing winds went South & would have done great harm to the 
US troops.

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 01:25:11PM -0400, Joaquin Bustelo wrote:
> 
> Lest we forget, it was *precisely* the development of the Soviet nuclear
> bomb that was a major factor in limiting Truman's actions during the Korean
> War. WITHOUT the Soviet bomb, the US without a doubt would have nuked North
> Korea's major cities and possibly beyond them. As it was, using
> "conventional" genocidal firebombing with Napalm (which had been developed
> at the end of WWII like the atomic bomb and for EXACTLY the same purpose, to
> carry out genocidal terror attacks on civilian population centers), the U.S.
> had destroyed at least half of each one of 18 or 22 major Korean cities, and
> in most cases way more than half. Countless smaller cities, towns and
> villages were also obliterated. OFFICIAL U.S. orders were EXPLICIT about the
> genocidal, war-criminal intent, calling for population centers to be
> eliminated, obliterated, wiped off the map and so on.
> 

-- 
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929

Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
michaelperelman.wordpress.com

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