Thursday, April 17, 2008
Philippines
The Philippine invasion seems to me one that was not entirely necessary at the time and was done to please McArthur's political motives. These forces could and should have taken Formosa to help out the Chinese ongoing war at the time. I could not stop thinking in class how history would have differed if we had gone onto Formosa, landed in China, and helped the Nationalist Chinese fight the Japanese in the war. If we had, maybe there would have never been a Communist China and the ongoing pseudo-Cold War between the US and China may have been avoided.
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an interesting thought. perhaps if we had gone to china instead, we might have stayed after the japanese surrender and helped equip the nationalist to fight the communist and might have found ourselves caught up in their civil war. if that happened, who knows what stalin and the soviets would have done
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