Ike’s speech seeking peace in Korea wouldn’t please Charles Krauthammer
April 14th, 2009 at 10:31am Chuck Sweeny
I read neo-con Charles Krauthammer’s column in today’s Register Star and was determined to write a rebuttal. These northern Virginia warriors, none of whom ever lifted a rifle in combat, from Gingrich, Hannity and Limbaugh to Rove, Cheney and Bolton, think Obama is a wimp because he went to Europe, talked frankly about America’s arrogance in the Bush years, and advocated a world without weapons of mass destruction.
Turns out I don’t have to write a rebuttal. My favorite president, IKE, already did, in a speech to newspaper editors in March 1953, after he determined to end the Korean war with a truce, not an all-out invasion of the north.
Here’s Ike’s speech, courtesy of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission:
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