(July 25, 2018 at 6:55 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(July 25, 2018 at 6:53 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: There's an old saying, "When people expect the worst they usually get it." If one lived through the '50s and '60s the lynchings, house burnings, riots and full tilt battles are a painful memory. George Catlett Marshall was worried about an impairment of the fighting forces, no justice.
The status quo is always advocated on the basis that maintaining it is better than not. How is wartime any different?
Guns, bombs, bullets, napalm, poison gas, etc. I'm not saying Marshall was right, but I do see his point. And Truman desegregated the Armed Forces in 1948, IIRC.
