pre-Rumsfeld
This from North Korea: Another Country by Bruce Cumings:
"In interviews published posthoumously, [Douglas] MacArthur said he had a plan that would have won the [Korean] war in ten days: 'I would have dropped between 30 and 50 atomic bombs... strung across the neck of Manchuria'; then he would have introduced half a million Chinese Nationalist troops at the Yalu, and then, 'spread behind us -- from the Sea of Japan to the Yellow Sea - a belt of radioactive cobalt... it has an active life of between 60 and 120 years. For at least 60 years there could have been no land invasion of Korean from the North... my plan was a cinch.'
"Cobalt 60 has 320 times the radioactivity of radium. One 4--=ton cobalt H-bomb, historian Carroll Quigley wrote, could wipe out all animal life on earth."
Good thing Rumsfeld can't read.
"In interviews published posthoumously, [Douglas] MacArthur said he had a plan that would have won the [Korean] war in ten days: 'I would have dropped between 30 and 50 atomic bombs... strung across the neck of Manchuria'; then he would have introduced half a million Chinese Nationalist troops at the Yalu, and then, 'spread behind us -- from the Sea of Japan to the Yellow Sea - a belt of radioactive cobalt... it has an active life of between 60 and 120 years. For at least 60 years there could have been no land invasion of Korean from the North... my plan was a cinch.'
"Cobalt 60 has 320 times the radioactivity of radium. One 4--=ton cobalt H-bomb, historian Carroll Quigley wrote, could wipe out all animal life on earth."
Good thing Rumsfeld can't read.
posted by D Money at 2:44 PM
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Welcome D Money! Macarthur was in the Fog of War. Probably later, when he was more geezerly, he may have regretted being so psycho. I wonder how old Rumsfeld will need to be in order to feel that way. He's pretty old right now, and unrepentant.
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