Will Messrs Spielberg + Hanks dare to …
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lezardormeurgeant — 11 years ago(September 16, 2014 04:37 AM)
I didn't see the pun comming, and it was purely unintentional.
And if anyone should have seen the punch coming on June 25th 1950,
it 's the fat cats in DC.
On June 8th 1950, all the NK newspapers(not many,I concede)printed what would soon become known
as "The Pyongyang Manifesto" calling for general elections (held at gunpoint as it would turn out, were Americans not shed their blood) throughout Korea (N & S) ignoring completely the Taehan Minkuk's existence.
A translated copy was available to the US Congress who chose to ignore it.
General MacArthur was an absolutely loyal military servant of The American Republic,
not a militaristic Ceasar as William Manchester would have us believe.
Besides, Mr. Manchester's monumental "Death Of A President" while recounting
the adulterated Camelot's 1,000 days made only one scant line in mentioning
Otto Otepka, whose for-being-loyal-ordeal behind the scenes, began even before January 20th 1961,
the official beginning of JFK's mandate.
If you can get hold of William G. GILL's 1969
"The Ordeal Of Otto Otepka"
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its 500 pages will suck you in as a tornado in one reading.
You can read too an article by the author in the August 1965 issue of the Reader's Digest.
Google also "Clark Mollenhoff articles".
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nickm2 — 11 years ago(September 18, 2014 09:38 PM)
Also allow me to 'wax sarcastic' in that in regards to the Korean War, many H'wood leftists probably felt the 'Good Guys' didn't win, which is probably why they don't want to make movies about a lost cause.
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nickm2 — 11 years ago(September 27, 2014 01:15 AM)
1991"How to read Donald Duck - Imperialism in the Disney Comics" ! [
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"Ah-soImpelialist pig/dogs"
in Disney??!!
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nickm2 — 11 years ago(September 10, 2014 08:17 PM)
General Bradley was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff when he made that famous statement about Korea being an unwinnable war. Every reputable historian since has agreed with Bradley's assessment.
Kinda hard to take that point of view in light of the success of South Korea vs the utter failure of North Korea. The Korean War looks pretty damned successful by comparison. -
wab-3 — 11 years ago(September 12, 2014 05:00 PM)
That's not what Bradley was talking about. The Chinese were not going to let MacArthur establish a far-right client state on their doorstep, which is what MacArthur was doing by trying to install Rhee as the leader of a united Korea. Doing that would have caused a massive land war halfway around the world against the then-united Sino-Soviet bloc, which would have been unwinnable.
Frankly, MacArthur didn't even care about Korean politics. He cared too much about American politics and not enough about Korean politics. That's why he was relieved of command. -
DD-931 — 11 years ago(January 02, 2015 11:01 PM)
The Inchon landing was one of the most brilliant amphibious assaults in history, and if the Chinese hadn't intervened it would have been the decisive event of the Korean War. You could certainly make a film about that.
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agracier-574-436194 — 10 years ago(August 07, 2015 03:06 PM)
I would think that the greater challenge, if you wish to call it that, is to make a mini-series about the Great War. It is after all the centennial from 2014-2018. What better time to come out with a series on that subject?