Oh yeah....
I'm a BIG McArthur fan; warts and all - and he had many. For instance; he could be incredibly petty and usually quite pompous. While ruling Japan, he was derisively known as "The Viceroy" or "Emperor Douglas the First". (Probably by the same people that called him "Dugout Doug" during WWII.)
However, "military genius" is not vacuous hyperbole when applied to Douglas McArthur, and nothing revisionist historians can say will change that fact.
Oh yes and failures too. The one thing I've always faulted McAuthur for was not giving his commanders credit for their victories. That was just plan petty, his command performed brilliantly and there should have been credit for all.
The thing that most impresses me about McAuthur was his ability to learn, change and adapt. I can't think of another American commander that fought in more wars or won more battles then McAuthur. And he was brilliant in all, using entire different tactics, and weapons in each. Korea, if it had not been for Truman's "limited war", "police action" would have been McAuthurs finest hour. He'd never have engaged the Chinese on the Asia mainland, he knew that was unwinable. But Korea would be united and free today had Truman allowed McAuthur to fight to win.
Thanks to Truman we no longer try to win wars and our generals no longer speak out and criticize administration war policy. Truman really sucked as a president.
My Grandmother (born approx. 1898) never forgave Truman for the way he treated McArthur. Course my grandparents never had a good word to say about any Democrat, and they passed on their thinking to my Daddy, too.