[edpc]

In all likelihood, had MacArthur had his way, we wouldn't have had a Soviet bloc Eastern Europe, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, Chinese entanglement in the US economy, and a troublesome North Korea right now.

Ah, what could have been......

[buccaneer81]

If we could only go back and change it all...

[Strategerist]

In all likelihood, had MacArthur had his way, we wouldn't have had a Soviet bloc Eastern Europe, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, Chinese entanglement in the US economy, and a troublesome North Korea right now.

So you let a commander who twice, through gross incompentence, was egregiously surprised, start running U.S. foreign policy?

First, his air force in the Phillipines gets destroyed on the ground TEN HOURS AFTER PEARL HARBOR.

Second, despite numerous warnings and intelligence about Chinese infiltration into North Korea, his forces are completely surprised and in several cases almost surrounded and annihilated when they do attack?

Most overrated general in U.S. military history.