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“It is Douglas MacArthur’s 143rd birthday.”
Does he still vote Democrat?
could you include Generals like Curtis Lemay in that list, people who fought total war to win.
Curtis LeMay who ordered fire bombing of Japanese cities killing 100s of thousands of civilians in the process could have been charged with war crimes had the USA lost the war.
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MacArthur would have finished off Red China once and for all, but his hands were tied.
My gut reaction is that Trump is more like Patton than MacArthur, but I can see the connections.
On the one hand we would never have saved Korea without his brilliant strategy and willingness to risk. On the other hand, we would have saved many lives if we had followed Nimitz’s plan to bypass the Philippines and strangled the main Japanese islands, without having to try to take over the Philippines, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa before forcing Japan’s surrender in August 1945 via the bomb and the Russian invasion of Manchuria.
You can argue about his military abilities, but his greatest achievement was seeing through Japan’s post-WWII transformation.
Its is Douglas MacArthurs 143rd birthday.
Was he the 1950’s equivalent of Donald Trump?
The times when he showed great leadership were many.
He modernised Wrest Point……..
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Hmm, two major errors so far. I stopped reading right here in order to recommend you get an editor.
Donald Trump’s main weakness is being too forgiving of those who surrounded him only to stab him in the back at every opportunity, such as the ignoble Mikey Pence, but there are many more as well.
Got run out of the Philippines. Got run out of South Korea.....TWICE. Got his butt handed to him by the Chinese in North Korea. Got fired for insubordination.
War hero?
Everybody’s flawed.
The Left just hates strong and successful male leaders.
Ask GEN David Petraeus. Biggest ego I ever saw in uniform.
He acts like he thinks he’s Douglas MacArthur reincarnated.
He isn’t.
“He resisted Australians who wanted to betray their own country in WW2 and surrender half the continent to Japan above the Brisbane line ... “
If true, shame on those Aussies.
Many historians believe that MacArthur was suffering from dementia during and after the Korean War.
Macarthur was DAMN lucky at Inchon.
MacArthur was a narcissist general and would have made a bad president unlike Eisenhower who was a humble man.
Extended the war in the Pacific by 6 to 9 months. Was incompetent but well connected politically. His one success was ruling post war Japan.
But as a General they wanted him nowhere near Europe. They wanted Nimitz to run the Pacific war but politically had to do something with him.
Peleliu and Tarawa were both launched to support MacArthur’s efforts plan for the Philippines.
He did that aged in his 60s with island hopping strategic brilliance.
(That was Nimitz...Mac was in his way)
In his 70’s he was again strategically brilliant with calculated risk at Incheon.
(That was the US Navy and Marines... though the pop culture iconography was that they were not behind it and it was the genius of MacArthur alone who taught the USMC and Navy about amphibious attack)
And he was openly insubordinate to President Truman.
Last, that lunatic also defied the direct orders of President Hoover and attacked and burned the WWI bonus marchers camp. He had cavalry attack them and beat them with the backs of their swords.
MacArthur should have been left for capture on Corregidor.
And his defense of the Philippines was utterly incompetent. he surrendered to a Jap force a third his size after that incompetent defense.
He was wrong on December 7th when he didn’t prepare the Army Air Force in the Philippines for a possible attack, and wrong about taking the Korean War so far north that China intervened, but he was a great general and a great American. He was incredibly right about Vietnam when the Best and the Brightest were so terribly wrong.
Mac never did much for anyone but Mac.
He was a good general who thought he was an emperor.
He considered Ike a good clerk. That kind of sums up his arrogance.