Posted on 04/15/2006 8:14:44 AM PDT by churchillbuff
When the final chapter is eventually written on MacArthur, I'm guessing it's not going to be a pretty story.
MacArthur had a great oppinion of himself. Truman had no choice but to confront this egotistical rogue general and enforce his authority over a general who put himself above god and country. MacArthur never missed an opportunity to promote himself at the expense of others.
Yes, it will. Meanwhile, however, we get to deal with the mewling stupdities of people who think the Secretary of Defense should be fired.
Yes. Fired. For taking and holding on to two countries for three years with the loss of less than three thousand men.
Who else has done it? No one. Of course.
But that doesn't matter. The media and their little lackeys have decided that the only thing left to do is to spout brainless propaganda.
Yes. Fired. For taking and holding on to two countries for three years with the loss of less than three thousand men.
Who else has done it? No one. Of course.
But that doesn't matter. The media and their little lackeys have decided that the only thing left to do is to spout brainless propaganda
And pat buchanan has been doing that for years.
Courage. The courage to tell hard truths about the mismanagement of this war
Please show me a war that no one could claim mismanagement and blunders. Mistakes were made, yes, but please reflect on what has happened in such a short time in two countries with no history except war and conflict. What has happened is amazing. Could it have been better, probably. Could it have been perfect with no detractors, never.
Armchair (retired) generals have always been around and so have armchair historians, armchair policy makers and others who can bash away at those in power using hindsight with great expertise.
2) We don't need a larger Army.
3) Reviewing & Micro management of troop deployments to OIF that caused entire units to be delayed.
4) Firing Jay Garner.
5) Installing a CPA in Iraq.
6) Not believing that an insurgency was occurring in Iraq.
7) Not hammering the Navy after the P-3/China crisis.
8) Replacing a SF Chairman of the JCS with an AF general after Afghanistan.
There are many more ....
I just hope the original caption for #112 was not -"What do I do with these?"
He did it while on active duty, not as a retired arm chair General getting a large retirement check.
I subscribe to the WP. Based on the columns I have read through the years, David Ignatius is very anti-Bush, anti-Rep. I find Buchanan's contention that Ignatius is pro-war nonsense.
You are spot on. Spot on. Why are there no Navy, USAF or Coasties in this bunch of whiners?
I was surprised to see a Marine, though.
The media lackeys want us to lose this war. They are seething totalitarian swine, and they will do anything for power.
Buchanan is a Loser and Anti America! Five out of Nine Thousand Retired Generals alive today. Rummy must be doing pretty good to only have five out of nine thousand upset with him. GOD BLRSS Rummy!
Or wait until they were trying to flog a book.
Because the UCMJ prohibits it.
Once you have active duty military officers publicly challenging the civilian leadership, you have crossed the Rubicon as Caesar did.
If there are problems, they need to be considered in a dispassionate manner without a knee-jerk defense of any particular individual. American military history is replete with both know-it-all Generals (McClellan, Hooker) and civilian micro-managers (McNamara, LBJ) that brought disaster to U.S. war efforts.
This is an issue where the debate should focus on military specifics and not on personalities.
One issue I agree with is the the Bush Administration has done an abysmal job in regards to fighting the Home Front Propaganda War........Not only in Iraq but even with domestic issues such as Katrina.
Say what you will about Bill Clinton, he was a master at molding public opinion. Even though Clinton had the liberal news media firmly in his corner, Clinton's "War Room" would mount a frontal attack on any public relations problem within one news cycle.
By comparison, when the Democrat Governor of Louisiana and the Democrat Mayor of New Orleans ignore their own evacuation plan and leave tens of thousands of poor people stranded in a flood surge zone, the message that America gets is, "Bush hates black people" and the reply from the White House is:
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