All the talk of atomic bombs again on the 75th year since they were dropped. Made me once again read up on Harry Truman, the Democrat hero who basically is still causing 1000s of deaths a year today, many decades later. Beside wiping out 2 cities full of civilians ( a debatable point for some I understand, and too complex to discuss in a thread like this), his accomplishments include:
1- Handing Vietnam back to the useless French (who couldn't even keep themselves from being colonized by the Germans). This was after Ho Chi Minh spent the war years helping Americans fight the Japanese, and after he asked for independence, quoting Abraham Lincoln. Thanks to Truman, SE Asia saw many decades of war and millions of deaths.
2- Creating the CIA, so they could overthrow elected governments overseas and eventually work their way up to spying on US citizens and attempting to overthrow elected governments in the US.
3- Creating the Truman Doctrine, which allowed American troops to be sent to all corners of the earth.
4- Ran up the death count in the Korean war, massacred North Korean civilians.
5- Redrew the Middle East and clumsily created Israel. Still ongoing.
6- Regularly called people he didn't like son's of bitches (publicly) and threatened to punch out a reviewer who panned his daughter's singing. Very Trump like in his demeanor, yet a hero of the Dems.
Basically responsible for many of the problems in the world today. And yet this disaster of a president, no matter his crimes, is hailed as a great president today simply because he had a D after his name rather than an R. Lack of principles among these people is nothing new.