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Pity no one listened to MacArthur - for all his egotism and defiance of authority, which really gave Truman no choice, we would probably be much better shape security-wise if we hadn't left an opening for the Chia Pet in N. Korea.

MacArthur also had this right (from a 1984 article in American Heritage): "He warned of “insidious forces working from within” to destroy traditional “moral precepts” and to turn the government itself into “an instrument of despotism. ” These same sinister forces, he hinted, had engineered his dismissal and were even using the taxing power to destroy the American soul. They “seek to make the burden of taxation so great and its progressive increases so alarming that the spirit of adventure, tireless energy and masterful initiative… shall become stultified and inert.”