Posted on 06/14/2022 8:23:40 AM PDT by Perseverando
June 14, 2022 • General MacArthur "Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within ... infiltrated into positions of public trust ... into journalism • the press • the radio & the school" - American Minute with Bill Federer
General Douglas MacArthur warned in his Farewell Address to Congress, April 19. 1951: "The Communist threat is a global one ... Under no circumstances must Formosa (Taiwan) fall under Communist control ..."
He continued: "... One must understand the changes in Chinese character and culture ... China, up to 50 years ago ... followed the tenets of the Confucian ideal of pacifist culture. At the turn of the century, under the regime of Chang Tso Lin, efforts ... produced the start of a nationalist urge.
... This was further ... developed under the leadership of Chiang Kai-Shek, but has been brought to its greatest fruition under the present regime to the point that it has now taken on the character of a united nationalism of increasingly dominant, aggressive tendencies.
... Through these past 50 years the Chinese people have thus become militarized ... They now constitute excellent soldiers, with competent staffs and commanders.
... This has produced a new and dominant power in Asia, which, for its own purposes, is allied with Soviet Russia but which in its own concepts and methods has become aggressively imperialistic, with a lust for expansion and increased power ... Chinese Communists' support of the North Koreans was the dominant one. Their interests are ... parallel with those of the Soviet ..."
MacArthur continued: "... But I believe that the aggressiveness recently
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The official US policy since Nixon has been that Taiwan belongs to Red China.
Thank Henry Kissinger.
Forgive my saying so, but the only thing MacArthur was great at was self promotion.
To put it politely, you have utterly no clue as to what you say.
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