"History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline.
There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse, or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster."
Gen. Mac ping
William J. Federer is hilarious.
An accountant turned television historian. Very funny that anyone but religious kooks would take him seriously.
/My father met MacArthur as a teenaged Marine in Korea. Said he was the biggest As!hole he ever met.
//As a professional historian, I consider him a fairly good general who surrounded himself with an excellent staff.
He became Chief of Staff in 1930 at age 50. Dealing with the severe budget cuts the Army faced during the Depression was intensely painful for him.
Bill Federer’s article is all well and good but historians seem to forget that Admiral Husband Kimmel & Major General Walter Short got canned for Washington’s failure to warn them about the code breaks of the planned Japanese attack on Pearl; yet MacArthur was lauded for his “I shall return” after he was grossly derelict for letting his Air Force get caught flat footed on the ground by the Japanese attack on Luzon. The Japanese Army swiftly overrun Luzon despite being outnumbered 3:2 by force under MacArthur. Add that to his savage attack on the “Bonus Army” and his insistence to Nuke North Korea and it comes out as grossly incompetent. Best thing Harry Truman did was to fire this egotistical, overbearing arse. American Caesar? What a joke!
For tomorrow.
You spelling in the title is incorrect ( MacArthur not McArthur) and the above fact from your source (http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs155/1108762609255/archive/1116360892946.html) is flat wrong for if it where true, Doug (Born 1880) would have been Chief of Staff in 1910 only seven years after he left West Point in the Class of 1903.
The truth is he became Chief of Staff in 1930 at age 50.
He was a truly an astounding man, despite his human faults.