He was the commander that let a much smaller Japanese force crush him in the Phillipines. AFTER getting his air forces caught on the ground by the Japanese air attacks -- despite having the warning of what had happened in Pearl. Worse, he accepted an MOH for this great failure. He then spent the rest of WWII fighting the Navy more than the Japanese. He wasted great effort on taking every little Japanese post in New Guineau. In the Phillipines liberation, he once again was bled heavily by a smarter Japanese commander. His ego led him to punish anyone who embarassed him. From Wainwright (sp?) for surrendering after Duguot left to never promoting the Lt. Colonel who organized the massive Filipino resistance to sentencing Yamashita to death for resisting so strongly, MacArthur never missed a chance to zap those who hurt his ego.
It was his command that got caught flat-footed by the North Koreans at the start of the Korean War. It was his command that failed to cut off the North Koreans in the south after the US amphibious landings. It was his command that ignored the clear signs that the Chicoms were south of the Yalu in great numbers.
These cowardly retired generals are definitely in the MacArthur tradition of doing what's best for them and not what's best for their soldiers. We're better off with these vermin retired and away from the troops. Give me Rumsfeld, who has a clue and is listening to today's Pattons and Shermans, not these Beltway Bandits.
Finally a voice of reason. Keep it up.
And you didn't even mention his mishandling of the Bonus marchers (of course, only civilians were killed in that incident).
When the final chapter is eventually written on MacArthur, I'm guessing it's not going to be a pretty story.