[churchillbuff]

Make no mistake, I consider MacArthur a patriot, ""

So do I, and he performed an eternal service by letting Americans know that Truman was sending their sons to die without a commitment to win the war.

[jamaksin]

Seems that you each are forgetting DugOut Doug's history at the start of WWII ... something about 8 hours warning and still entire B-17 fleet caught on the ground, very poor disposition of supplies, ..., etc.

Regarding Churchill, a search for "SS AUTOMEDON" might be an interesting read ... Quite the saga.

[mkjessup]

Make no mistake, I consider MacArthur a patriot,
So do I, and he performed an eternal service by letting Americans know that Truman was sending their sons to die without a commitment to win the war.

That should have been obvious from the time that troops were first sent into the Korean peninsula under the U.N. banner. If there is blame to be assigned for the debacle in Korea which allowed the tumor now known as Kim Jong Il to flourish even today, that blame should be assigned to the U.N., which repeatedly proves itself as useless as it's former incarnation, the League of Nations. If Truman erred in Korea, he erred in allowing the U.N. to run up their motley flag over our own. If there was a nuke to be used at all (and again, knowing that we had only 13 nukes in our entire inventory), that nuke should have been dropped on Pyongyang which would have put an end to the accursed Kim Il Sung dynasty with which we are dealing with now.

[Joan Kerrey]

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.