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Democrats are too orthodox on foreign policy

Six years after US Democrats used atomic force to end the second world war, it was permissible, even normal, to question their firmness abroad.

Douglas MacArthur was pressing in 1951 for the expansion of the Korean war into communist China. The general’s bellicosity and indiscretion cost him his command but Harry Truman, the president who cashiered him, emerged the worse.

The idea that absent-minded Democrats had “lost” China was already in the air. Now the right had a martyr to enforce the point.

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