Edited sentence: President Harry Truman refused to allow General MacArthur to bomb Chinese staging bases or key bridges from China into Korea.Truman continued to refuse to strike back at Chinese forces.Truman removed General MacArthur from command.Truman thus bears full responsibility for the current existence of totalitarian North Korea.Truman's cowardice led to the loss of North Korea and the death of thousands of American soldiers.Truman's fear of offending the Chinese enabled them to send hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops to overwhelm surprised and outnumbered American/United Nations forces