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On Sunday morning, June 25, 1950, Communist armies of [[North Korea]] crossed the border in an invasion of the southern republic. Two days later [[President Truman]] announced: "I have ordered the United States air and sea forces to give the Korean government troops, cover and support." The next day American ground and air forces were fully engaged in [[South Korea]] in what the President called "a police action." John T. Flynn described the perplexity of the American electorate: "Thus [the U.S] became enmeshed in an obscure tangle of circumstances... involving objectives so dimly seen, stretching on to problems so insoluble, and promising stresses on our economic and political system ... in pursuit of ends no one understands and involving costs and consequences we cannot measure."<ref>[http://www.mises.org/books/whileyouslept.pdf While You Slept : Our Tragedy in Asia and Who Made It], John T. Flynn, New York : The Devin - Adair Company, 1951, pgs 9-10 pdf.</ref> The [[Korean War]] disrupted the postwar economic boom with military service, shortages, restrictions and cost-of-living inflation which could not help but breed discontent. And through it all, Prof. [[Carroll Quigley]] points out, "the press kept up a constant barrage of 'Communists in Washington,' 'twenty years of treason.'"<ref>''Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time'', Carroll Quigley, Collier-Macmillan, 1966, pg. 986. ISBN 0-945001-10-X</ref>
On Sunday morning, June 25, 1950, Communist armies of [[North Korea]] crossed the border in an invasion of the southern republic. Two days later [[President Truman]] announced: "I have ordered the United States air and sea forces to give the Korean government troops, cover and support." The next day American ground and air forces were fully engaged in [[South Korea]] in what the President called "a police action." John T. Flynn described the perplexity of the American electorate: "Thus [the U.S] became enmeshed in an obscure tangle of circumstances... involving objectives so dimly seen, stretching on to problems so insoluble, and promising stresses on our economic and political system ... in pursuit of ends no one understands and involving costs and consequences we cannot measure."<ref>[http://www.mises.org/books/whileyouslept.pdf While You Slept : Our Tragedy in Asia and Who Made It], John T. Flynn, New York : The Devin - Adair Company, 1951, pgs 9-10 pdf.</ref> The [[Korean War]] disrupted the postwar economic boom with military service, shortages, restrictions and cost-of-living inflation which could not help but breed discontent. And through it all, Prof. [[Carroll Quigley]] points out, "the press kept up a constant barrage of 'Communists in Washington,' 'twenty years of treason.'"<ref>''Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time'', Carroll Quigley, Collier-Macmillan, 1966, pg. 986. ISBN 0-945001-10-X</ref>
[[Chiang Kai-shek]] was caught between two wars—a war on China by Japan and a war on China by the Soviet Union. American leaders refused to see this and insisted on acting in the illusion that China was fighting the Japanese only and that Soviet Union was an ally. Then came the startling realization that the United States, too, like China, was engaged in two wars in Asia, one against a common enemy, Japan; the other against a common enemy, the Soviet Union. The United States, with its ally China, fought the Japanese. But all the time the Soviet Union, with its satellite Comintern army in China, was fighting both China and the United States. The [[iron curtain]] that, with the [[Yalta agreement]], was rung down over American allies in Europe—[[Poland]] and [[Czechoslovakia]] and other little countries—fell on China also. And this was made possible wholly because of the Soviet Union's allies—conscious and unconscious—in America, in the U.S. government and even in the [[U.S. State Department]].
==Extrajudicial means==
==Extrajudicial means==