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...that it was not only willing but able to fight. For a brief moment, in the first days of fall, the U.S. could draw a breath of satisfaction and relief. But there was no celebration, only the sense of a job done, or almost done. Crossing the 38th parallel involved more casualties and risks (see WAR IN ASIA...
...North Koreans in their Russian-made Yaks found themselves no match for U.S. pilots and planes, and virtually disappeared from the air, never to reappear in combat. They did not even send up fighters to attack the unescorted B-29 Superforts which later began strategic raids north of the 38th parallel...
...says he notices particularly pictures in the papers of "boys from the North who grin when they are captured and news reports that Koreans north of the 38th parallel are rejoicing at the arrival of the South Korean army." He explains that the vanguard of the South Korean invading army is composed of exited boys from the North who are now going home...
...meantime, were the U.N. forces to withdraw behind the 38th parallel, the world would begin to doubt America's determination to meet its obligations. We would be in the same foolish position politically and militarily as before the 25th of June...
Doubtless there is some danger involved in the decision to send American and South Korean forces across the 38th parallel at this time. It will certainly reinforce the Communist propaganda line in Asia where the propaganda charges American or white imperialism. It may provoke the Peking government of China, or perhaps the Kremlin, into some new aggressive action, even into an all-out war. But in the present situation the risks involved in immediately occupying all of Korea appear to be sound...