>Umm, one of the greatest generals? MacArthur? I don’t think so.
He was the best General the US had after Patton was murdered.
> Truman had no choice but to fire Dugout Dug. He was an egomaniac who was not only ignoring Truman but Truman’s Joint Chief of Staff as well.
MacArthur is the reason Japan didn’t end up half Communist. Truman instructed MacArthur to prepare to give the northern half the country to Russia. MacArthur leaked it to the press to prevent it. Harry Truman was a damn Communist sympathizer.
>He was about to take the U.S. into a war with China that we were not prepared to fight and had no desire to fught so soon after WWII.
China attacked us. It was cowardly and cost us a lot of men not to use air power to knock China out of the war. I think the real reason we failed to do so was Truman’s support of the Communist Chinese.
“China attacked us. It was cowardly and cost us a lot of men not to use air power to knock China out of the war. I think the real reason we failed to do so was Truman’s support of the Communist Chinese.”
I don’t know if you’re serious or not, appears you’re just a bomb thrower. But, either way you ibviously need to do some reading up on your history.
Ok, explain this statement. “China attacked us. It was cowardly and cost us a lot of men not to use air power to knock China out of the war. I think the real reason we failed to do so was Truman’s support of the Communist Chinese.”
I will acknowledge that the Chinese “attacked us” by crossing Yalu River. But, Mac had advance troops right up to the river and was making it publically known that he wanted to cross into China. He also was publically making it known that he wanted to use nukes. Consequently, the Chinese considered all this as a threat and attacked. And, in very short order rolled up the 1st Cav who was previously an occupation force division in Japan and was ill equipped to fight a shooting war with the Chinese. As a side note, The Cav lost its colors in disgrace as was thereby not allowed to return to the U.S. after the war. When the 1st Cav was sent to Nam it wasn’t the actual unit, just the colors. It was actually the 10th Air Assualt and 2nd Infantry Division that shipped over. The 1st Cav and the 2nd Infantry swapped colors. But, I degree. My bad :)