The fate of Taiwan and its 23.57 million citizens was sealed the day the Biden Crime Family and the Democrat Party stole their way into the White House – in exactly the same way as Korea’s in 1951.
Dwight D. Eisenhower: I Shall Go to Korea, October 25, 1952; Annals Vol. 17, p. 199:
“The biggest fact about the Korean War is this: It was never inevitable; it was never inescapable.”
“We are not mute prisoners of history. That is a doctrine for totalitarians; it is no creed for freemen.”
“We are fighting the Korean War for the simplest of reasons: Because free leadership failed to check and to turn back Communist ambitions before it savagely attacked us. The Korean War – more perhaps than any other war in history – simply and swiftly followed the collapse of our political defenses. There is no other reason than this: We failed to read and to outwit the totalitarian mind.”
“World War II should have taught us all one lesson: To vacillate, to hesitate – to appease even by merely betraying unsteady purpose – is to feed a dictator’s appetite for conquest and to invite war itself. Because it was ignored, the record of these [Democrat] policies is a record of appalling failure.”
“The record of failure dates back at least to September of 1947 when General Albert Wedemeyer submitted this warning: “The withdrawal of American military forces from Korea would result in the occupation of South Korea by either Soviet troops or, by the North Korean troops trained by the Soviet Union.” That report was disregarded and suppressed by the administration.
In June 1949, the Secretary of State testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee that, despite ominous warnings to the contrary, the South Korean government was capable of filling the vacuum created by the withdrawal of American troops. Republican Congressman Walter Judd of Minnesota warned: “I think the thing necessary to secure South Korea is to leave at least one battalion there. If the battalion is not there South Korea will be invaded within a year.” The administration shrugged off that so-accurate warning.
On July 26, 1949, the minority report of five Republican members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee stated:
“It is reliably reported that Soviet troops, attached to the North Korean puppet armies, are in position of command as well as acting as advisers. . .
This development may well presage the launching of a full-scale military drive across the 38th Parallel. Our forces have been withdrawn from South Korea at the very instant when logic and common sense both demanded no retreat from the realities of the situation.
Already along the 38th Parallel aggression is speaking with the too-familiar voices of howitzers and cannons. Our position is untenable and indefensible. The House should be aware of these facts.”
These words of eloquent, reasoned warning were spoken eleven months before the Korea War broke.
What was the administration answer to that warning? The first answer was silence – stubborn, sullen silence, for six months. Then, suddenly, January 1950, came speech:
“The United States government will not provide military aid or advice to Chinese forces on Formosa.” One week later, the Secretary of State announced his famous “defense perimeter” – publicly advising our enemies that so far as nations outside this perimeter were concerned “no person can guarantee those areas against military attack.” Six months later, on June 25, 1950, communist forces struck across the 38th Parallel.
On that day, the record of political and diplomatic failure of this administration [and the State Department] was completed and sealed.”
“The vital lesson is this: To vacillate, to appease, to placate is only to invite war – vaster war, bloodier war. In the words of the late Senator Vandenberg, appeasement is not the road to peace; it is only surrender on the installment plan.”
“A nation’s foreign policy is a much graver matter than rustling papers and bustling conferences. It is much more than diplomatic decisions and trade treaties and military arrangements. A foreign policy is the face and voice of a whole people. It is all that the world sees and hears and understands about a single nation. It expressed the character and the faith and the will of that nation. In this, a nation is like any individual of our personal acquaintance; the simplest gesture can betray hesitation or weakness, the merest inflection of voice can reveal doubt or fear. It is in this deep sense that our foreign policy has faltered and failed.”
“Today, the choice – the real choice – lies between the policies that assume that responsibility awkwardly and fearfully, and policies that accept that responsibility with sure purpose and firm will. The choice is between foresight and blindness, between doing and apologizing, between planning and improvising.”
“At this date, any faltering in America’s leadership is a capital offense against freedom.”
“You can be totally convinced you are right – and still be horribly wrong.” – Dostoevsky, The Idiot, 1869
