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To: 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.

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.

34 posted on 05/13/2010 5:50:34 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: Strategerist

Hey made some good photo ops though wading in the the ocean like that. And you have to give him credit for his campaign to re-take the Pacific and the landing at Incheon.


38 posted on 05/14/2010 12:19:33 AM PDT by valkyry1
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