God and American National Humiliations

America has suffered many national humiliations. The worst was Pearl Harbor, where 2300 Americans died and much of the Pacific fleet sank. Then the Philippines, an American protectorate, were conquered and the American army taken captive.The next great humiliation was the quick fall of American-backed, funded and armed Nationalist China to Mao's communists. Truman had ended American support because American arms ended up with the communists, American dollars ended up in the pockets of corrupt Nationalists, and Chiang Kai-shek's army was feckless. For years Americans fiercely debated who "lost" China. But the answer was: Chiang.