Fake News Headlines

Just about every day I post headlines drawn for various Internet news sites. However, the following headlines are ersatz  ... real fake news items that might be newsworthy if they came true:

IRS has denied Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA their requested tax-exempt status

Kim Jong Un says global warming caused the collapse of his nuclear weapons testing site

On her book tour, Hillary Clinton refuses to sign books bought from the remainder bin

If Trump cancels their nuclear deal, Iran threatens to build ten more atom bombs

Former FBI Director. James Comey has been diagnosed with a hyper-active ego

Harvey Weinstein is making a commercial for Irish Spring

Elon Musk fears that a robot will soon be elected president

Bare-chested, Vladamir Putin bench-presses two hydrogen bombs

Bill Clinton is seeking female applicants for internships at the Clinton Foundation

Instead of fighting its unfavorable rulings, George Soros has decided to buy Hungary

The Las Vegas shooter's motive has been uncovered: Repressed "Deliverance" banjo phobia

Trump's early morning tweet: Steak and eggs for breakfasts! #WellDonew/Ketchup

Was MacArthur Right?

                              "Old soldiers never die, they just fade away ..."

Back in 1950 after North Korea had invaded South Korea ... and the ROK/UN forces with the considerable help of the United  States under General Douglas MacArthur had, within the year,  pushed the Norks back to the Yalu river, the Chinese Communists entered the war with massive hoards of soldiers ... some not even armed. MacArthur felt that this aggression required that the U.S. respond with tactical nuclear weapons against these massive Chinese armies. For his outspokenness on this issue, he was fired by President Harry Truman.

The question now poses itself ... was MacArthur right? The real decision point was whether MacArthur's action would have started a world-wide nuclear conflagration? I think that this is a difficult question. But my best guess is no ... because the U.S. was so far ahead of every other country that China and Russia would not dared to respond in kind. China was 14 years away from having an atomic weapon and Russia only had had them for four years ... and was three years away from the H-bomb.

So, what might have been the result if Truman had given MacArthur his leash? One, we would now have a unified Korean peninsula with no Kim Jong Un and his atomic madness. Number two, China might well feel more reticent to challenge the West militarily. And three, China might even have followed Japan's path toward demilitarizing as a result of the trauma it experienced at the Yalu river.

Yes, there were risks involved under MacArthur's strategy ... but were they any larger than what we face today?