Korean War Lessons

Prompt:

It is 1952. A new president, Eisenhower, has been elected in the US. Your task is to write a report for him on what lessons the United States can learn from the war. Your report should advise the President on:

the US aims in Korea
how the support of the UN helped
how far the US achieved its aims
whether MacArthur should have been allowed to invade North Korea
why MacArthur was removed
the military and civilian cost of war

* O.K. so I think I really messed up the tense of this assignment. I wrote mostly in present tense and I'm not sure now that I should have done that because reading it again now it doesn't make much sense. Sorry.

Mr. President it is 1952 and we are currently engaged in a war against the northern portion of Korea. This area is presently run in a communist fashion and it an ally of the USSR. Its counterpart however is of a different nature, south Korea is a nation that cannot be described as strictly democratic but it is very anti-communist. This has been a major reason for our nation's support of Southern Korea. Our main focus in the war against North Korea is to promote democracy. To achieve this goal we have used the full strength of the UN many nations like the UK have help us in our war against communism. So far we have been successful in driving communism out of south korea. However we are determined to go beyond that and drive communism out of Korea entirely. So for months we had been fighting towards the nation's border with China however now we are being pushed back, south of the 38th parallel and President Truman would like to end the fight there. We have captured south korea and it is unlikely that we can carry on fighting like this much longer. However Mr. McArther doesn't want to give up the fight and wishes to continue fighting into China. Truman does not like this idea and neither does the UN so McArther has been fired by Truman. In my opinion this was a good choice on Truman's part. We could not have continued fighting on that much longer and we certainly could not have won back more land fighting against the People's Republic of China. This war has been very costly to the citizens of Korea, both north and south. It was not particularly costly to american lives however. 30,000 US soldiers were killed in this war. 500,000 south korean civilians were killed and a total of 1.4 million soliers and civilians were killed.