The Marshall Mission

(The Marshall Mission)

Next Sunday, NBC will premiere the new Magnum P.I, which is the same show that CBS had canceled last year. But that "Magnum," can trace its lineage back to Hawaii Five-O, which is an extension of NCIS Los Angelas, which goes back to NCIS classic, which was itself a spin-off of the legal drama, JAG. JAG first premiered on NBC in 1994 starring David James Elliot and Tracy Needham, with a couple of cameos from Oliver North. Full circle ?


The Age-Old Question. Who lost China ? The originally, it had been the Nationalist Chinese, led by Generissimo Chaing Kai-Chek, and the Communists, led by Mao Zedong. While Japan was the common enemy, both factions cooperated. When the war was over, however, a Chinese civil war loomed. In December, 1945, President Truman dispatched former Army Chief of Staff, General George Marshall to Peking to speak on behalf of the Nationalists, trying to get both sides to an accord that would prevent an outbreak of hostilities. The "compromise" for the Communists, however was Nationalist capitulation, and Mao would not accept anything less than total control. As the story goes, the Communists won, the Nationalists fled to Formosa (Taiwan). The Marshall Mission, such as it was, deemed a failure.


Today, with China sending over balloons like locusts, one that had been allowed its full tour and the others that had been "engaged" over Alaskan, if not Canadian air space. The Chinese origin has yet to be "confirmed" but one can easily guess. So, full circle ? On4e can see while these events are happening now. The reason Beijing is being aggressive now is the same reason they ignored General Marshall at the time of his "mission."


General Marshall, and President Truman for that matter, could offer the Chinese Communists nothing that they could not secure on their own. In a sense, the Biden Administration is as in-effective now as Marshall was at the end of World War II. Beijing has been using these "flights," for a lack of a better word, to test Western responses. And, this being almost three years into the Biden years, the President's weakness, especially with regards to the Peoples' Republic. At this point, there is only one thing to do. . .


Tune the new "Magnum" next Sunday.

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