[Alas Babylon!]

MacArthur wanted to use air power to attack the PRC including nukes, if needed, and employ Chinese troops from Taiwan. He wanted to win. Truman wanted a limited war, which has been our policy since. Vietnam was the prime example of gradual escalation and an unwillingness to destroy the enemy with nothing off limits, e.g., the dikes and port facilities.

I think that was what I was saying, in essence.

MacArthur knew how to win a fight without a head-on, meat grinder assault. He was famous for hitting the enemy where they least expected.

Truman should have let MacArthur fight.

By the way, when I was in Australia I got to visit his WWII HQ. Met some folks who worked for MacArthur there.

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Transcript Collection

April 15, 2018

ABC's "This Week" - Sarah Huckabee Sanders; Susan Collins; Adam Schiff
NBC's "Meet the Press" - Paul Ryan; Joni Ernst
CBS' "Face the Nation" - Nikki Haley; Tim Kaine
CNN's "State of the Union" - Angus King; Preet Bharara; Michael Avenatti
"Fox News Sunday" - Nikki Haley; Trey Gowdy

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By the way, when I was in Australia I got to visit his WWII HQ. Met some folks who worked for MacArthur there.

My Dad spent most of WWII on MacArthur's G-3 staff. He didn't talk about the War very often, but he did tell me a hilarious (to me) MacArthur story. When MacArthur "returned" to the Philippines, my Father referred to him as the "geezer." I almost laughed out loud, because my Dad was 91-years-old. (Although he was 21 in 1944).