Re: Gen. Bradley

["J.E. Ballow" <bballow@motion.net>]

I was always of the opinion that Bradley was one of the main problems Gen
Mac had with Washington. Am still of that opinion.

-----Original Message-----
From: RonaldS842@aol.com <RonaldS842@aol.com>
To: KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu <KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu>
Date: Thursday, March 28, 2002 9:54 PM
Subject: Re: Gen. Bradley


>
>In a message dated 3/29/02 2:16:03 AM, Jhk789@aol.com writes:
>
><< > The Korean War was the right war, in the right place, and at the right
>> time.
>
>Didn't Gen. Bradley say the other way around?
>
>John2
> >>
>
>Hi John2-
>
>   In 1951 General of the Army Omar N. Bradley, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs
>of Staff made the statement "wrong time, wrong place, wrong war." What most
>people don't seem to remember is that the original nature of the chairman's
>statement. Bradley had been referring to General MacArthur's proposal to
>expand the war geographically and employ weapons of mass destruction after
>China had entered the conflict. And these critics perhaps did not know that
>Bradley had been alone among the country's senior officers in objecting to
>the exclusion of Korea from the list of stategegic lands prior to the war.
>Given the context of the questions posed in 1954 General Bradley would have
>undoubtedly agreed with the responce given by Truman's military detractors.
>
>Van Fleet: Well, certainly not. I have often made a statement that it was
the
>right war at the right place and the right time against the right enemy and
>with the right allies, thinking of the Koreans as very worthy Friends.
>
>Admiral C. Turner Joy: Quite the contrary. It was a war of deep
significance
>in a battle area which held many advantages for the United Nations.
>Furthermore it was very timely from the standpoint of resisting Communist
>aggression. With the excellent bases in Japan, with the capabilities of
>flying carrier based planes over the entire peninsula and with the coast
line
>that lent itself admirably to bombardment missions in support of the Army,
>the Navy could not have fought in a more favorable distant area from the
>United States.
>
>   Those who called it "wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time",
>failed to comprehend that the truely just wars are fought, not because they
>are convenient, but because a failure to resist, a failure to fight, would
be
>morally wrong. There are, quite simply, conditions worse than war.
>
>Ron
>