After 50 years, the "X"-SPURTS say DugOut Doug was right. The U.S. was the major part of a U.N. force opposing hopped up Chinese "volunteers" and N. Korea's conscripts.
Dugout Doug wanted to cross the Yalu, without U.N. authority when every hand grenade available was in a single Quonset hut in Okinawa and our under-equipped and under-clothed troops were surviving with WWII gear.
Having spent more time than I care to remember in a U.S. Army hospital during that lovely Korean Police Action era, I fully recognize the ignorance of those who profess "speaking authority" on the subject.
The U.N. and its operations are far from perfect.
BUT, except for situations where we "Yanks" were sucked in to back "Anti-Communist" dictators, it has mostly been effective.
We've had a U.S. spokesman declare "Korea is not in our sphere of security", inviting the attack on S. Korea under conditions at that time; George Marshal [prior to 1950] refuse Ho Chi Minh's plea for U.S.help with Viet Nam gaining freedom from French colonial rule, Bush family adventures in Iraq, Grenada and Panama; and now the justified Afghan effort.
Now with "war profiteer" mentality sweeping U.S. business, the nation is almost as broke as the "cold war" left Russia.

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