Posted on 01/26/2022 8:36:59 AM PST by Ozguy1945
In Australia it is now politically incorrect for patriots to celebrate Australia Day, the national holiday which marks the arrival of the First Fleet from England.
Progressives want to call it Invasion Day or Survival Day to describe the dispossession of the original inhabitants of the continent.
My preference is for more attention to be placed on the fact that January 26 is also General Douglas MacArthur's birthday.
Not everyone agrees but to me he was a great man.
Belittling the heroes of The West is not for me.
There is so much to learn from them.
Feb 6 is Waitangi Day in NZ... (1840) ...Will Jacinda follow Aussie ???
Happy Australia Day !!! Australia holds a piece of my heart in love …..
Aren’t most of the whites in Australia descendants of prisoners? Basically, the whites there were themselves displaced.
Japanese should be first to sing praise of MacArthur.
Did they throw everyone who celebrated into quarantine camps?
I am confident she will see Australia and raise.
Old Soldiers Never Die--Gene Autry (1951)
Then from a land of Way Down Under,
A mighty voice did say:
"Our cause is just. In God we trust.
I will return one day."
Happy Australia Day! You have plenty to be proud of. Don’t let the leftist fanatics (who hate almost everything) get you down.
Eh ???
MacArthur screwed up in the 1941-1942 Philippines Campaign.
He let hours go by after being informed about Pearl Harbor before taking any action.
He let his air force get caught on the ground.
He failed to move supplies to Bataan until well into December. He should have stated on December 8th, or even before hand as USAFFE had received multiple notices and War Warnings from the War Department.
He attempted to defend on the beaches when he did not have enough trained troops to do so.
Unlike Kimmel and Short who were thousands of miles away. MacArthur was right next door to Japanese Formosa and Japanese occupied French Indochina. He has no excuse he should have been operating on a war footing as soon as the Japanese took Indochina.
I acknowledge the validity of your critique.
On the other side of the ledger, I would say:
A. He opposed the people who wanted to give the top half or more of Australia to the Japanese with the Brisbane line.
B. His island hopping strategy worked.
C. Incheon was a brilliant victory.
D. He oversaw the establishment of sustainable parliamentary democracy in Japan.
E. He demilitarised imperialist Japan.
F. The world would be a better place now if MacArthur had been allowed to defeat the enemy in North Korea.
How many of these six positives do you acknowledge, greenlanterncorps?
Thank you.
You are a fine example of successful Leftist brainwashing.
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