杜鲁门的总参谋长布莱德利解释不应把朝鲜战争扩大到中国境内的理由：中国太弱没有野心称霸世界
此视频是麦克阿瑟被解职后回到美国时受到美国民众盛大欢迎的场景
背景：朝鲜战争第四次战役期间，麦克阿瑟率领美军反攻取得重大胜利，并扬言要对中国境内实施核打击。这违背了杜鲁门总统和其参谋长布莱德利的战略意图，导致杜鲁门于1951年4月11日解除了麦克阿瑟的职务。美国民众反对杜鲁门的决定，一个月后的5月15日，杜鲁门及其参谋长布莱德利被迫向国会解释他们解除麦克阿瑟职务的原因。杜鲁门为他解除麦克阿瑟职务的决定付出了代价，由于不得人心，他不得不放弃竞选连任美国总统。多年后，杜鲁门依然因此对麦克阿瑟怒不可遏，在接受媒体采访时大骂麦克阿瑟"A son of a bitch."
维基百科提供了布莱德利在国会的解释：
"The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy" is General Omar Bradley's famous rebuke in his May 15, 1951 Congressional testimony as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the idea of extending the Korean War into China, as proposed by General Douglas MacArthur, the commander of the U.N. forces in Korea before being relieved of command by President Harry Truman on April 11, 1951.[1]
Here is a more complete passage of Bradley's testimony:
I am under no illusion that our present strategy of using means short of total war to achieve our ends and oppose communism is a guarantee that a world war will not be thrust upon us. But a policy of patience and determination without provoking a world war, while we improve our military power, is one which we believe we must continue to follow….
Under present circumstances, we have recommended against enlarging the war from Korea to also include Red China. The course of action often described as a limited war with Red China would increase the risk we are taking by engaging too much of our power in an area that is not the critical strategic prize.
Red China is not the powerful nation seeking to dominate the world. Frankly, in the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, this strategy would involve us in the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy.
—?From testimony before the Senate Committees on Armed Services and Foreign Relations, May 15, 1951.—Military Situation in the Far East, hearings, 82d Congress, 1st session, part 2, p. 732 (1951).
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我并不幻想我们目前使用全面战争以外的手段来实现我们的目标和反对共产主义的战略，就一定能保证世界大战不会发生在我们身上。但是，在我们提高军事力量的同时，我们认为必须继续遵循的策略是克制和坚定以避免导致世界大战....。
在目前情况下，我们建议不要把战争从朝鲜扩大到红色中国。所谓与红色中国进行有限战争的战略会导致我们在一个并非关键战略目标的地区投入过多的力量。
红色中国并不是企图主宰世界的强大国家。坦率地说，参谋长联席会议认为，这一【与红色中国进行有限战争的】战略将使我们在错误的时间、错误的地点、与错误的敌人打一场错误的战争。