Hello All :
Mr. Linkagain posted the following screed, which I have subdivided, corrected the spelling
and syntax, and addressed point by point.
Julius Ceasar was a clever politician and a masterful military leader...
once when he was besieging a City in Gaul the Gauls tried to hem him in with
a siege wall of their own, he countered by besieging them!
Julius Caesar was such a clever politician that he was killed by a group led by his own son,
Brutus. And, let us note, Julius Caesar was such a masterful military leader that he was
defeated by the Britons, and forced to retreat back to Gaul.
Although William Manchester could be a thorough biographer {The
Death of A President; The Arms of Krupp; the Last Lion] his biography
"Douglas MacArthur American Caesar" is just not up to par....
William Manchester was a committed New Dealer, who worshipped at the altar of Freewheelin'
Franklin Roosevelt and Harry ' The Haberdasher' Truman. He set out to write a ' Hit Piece '
about MacArthur ( after MacArthur was safely dead ! ) and his publisher took his title and ran
with it, spreading a lot of pre-publication publicity about how Manchester would ' dismantle
' the MacArthur legend..... Then, something strange happened: The more he learned about
MacArthur, the more Manchester came to respect and admire him. His book, instead of being
a 'Hit Piece' , instead serves as a useful adjunct to MacArthur's own autobiography,
' Reminiscences ' . I strongly recommend both books for anyone who wishes to get through
the wall of lies and B.S. spread by Liberals, Socialists, Marxists, and just plain ignorant fools
about MacArthur.
While MacArthur, as Proconsul of Japan actually succeeded in many
( But not all) ways to bring Japan to the 20th Century,
Man, the B.S. is getting deep here...... MacArthur's official title while he was in Japan was
' The Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers ' (SCAP)
While MacArthur was SCAP in Japan, He worked with the Japanese to dismantle the Japanese
Army, banning military officers from entering the new government.
MacArthur also introduced Land Reform, designed to benefit the majority tenant farmers.
and broke up the large Japanese business conglomerates, or Zaibatsu
In 1947, MacArthur essentially wrote a new Constitution for Japan’s leaders. Some of the
most profound changes in the document included:
1. Downgrading the Emperor’s status to that of a figurehead
2. Placing more power in the parliamentary system, with
free and open elections
3. Promoting greater rights and privileges for women
4. Ensuring the right of Japanese workers to join Unions
5. Ending the Military's domination of the School System
6. Abolishing the KenPeiTai ( Japan's Secret Police )
7. Renouncing the right to wage war
Despite Post War Economic troubles in Japan in late 1947 to 1948 the economic rehabilitation
of Japan was successfully carried out, making a Communist take-over of Japan impossible.
The outbreak of the Korean War in 1950 provided SCAP with just the opportunity it needed
to address Japan's economic problems. After the UN entered the Korean War, Japan
became the principal supply depot for UN forces, greatly spurring the reconstruction of
Japan's industries.
The third phase of the occupation, beginning in 1950, led to the government and economy
of Japan being firmly established. .
When he ran for President in 1952 he didn't even carry his
home state of Wisconsin....
In 1972, George McGovern was defeated in his home state of South Dakota by.......
Richard Milhous Nixon ! Who was driven from office in disgrace less than two years later.....
As for his reputation as a Great Strategist...
Remember, He was considered a Great Strategist by Winston Churchill, who, along with
John Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia, insisted he be put in command of the Liberation
of the Philippines. While re-taking New Guinea, MacArthur took more territory, and
inflicted more enemy casualties with fewer troops, less equipment, and lower casualties
than ANY other U.S. Commander in WW2. His Philippine Campaign is STILL studied as
an example of brilliant strategy.
Well it is true that as Theater Commander, the Philippines
were liberated thanks to the US 8th Army under Walter Kruger; the
US Navy; the USMC and British and Australian Allies.....
Gee.... What you are saying is that the Philippines were liberated by the forces commanded
by..... Douglas MacArthur !
.It obvious he never read Sun Tzu....how else to explain his two
inglorious defeats....
"I always kept a copy of The Art of War on my desk." - General Douglas MacArthur,
5 Star General & Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers.
United States Military Posture for FY1989 (Washington,
DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989), 5–6, 93–94.
It is obvious that
YOU have never done even five minutes of research on MacArthur -
I found this quote in less than that time just by going on Wikipedia !
December 1941 His Air Forces are destroyed by the IJN in
the Philippines
This was hashed out years ago. The one, single person responsible for the loss of the
Philippines Air Forces was General Brereton, who made a series of blunders on December
8th that led to the destruction of half the B-17s and about half of the P-40s and P-35s
in the islands. MacArthur was NOT responsible for this disaster - it was all due to
Brereton, who had a reputation for mental instability, alcoholism, poor performance,
and, arguably, cowardice, that followed him throughout his career.
Nine years later in November 1950 almost on the anniversary of his
Philippine Debacle the Chinese enter the Korea War,,,,[which negated his
one piece of original military Planning in Korea (Inchon Landings)]......
among the factors...
That's right, the Chinese entered the Korean War in November, 1950, by sending a million
poorly equipped, poorly clothed, under-armed, ill fed, and badly trained troops into Korea.
While they made early, initial gains, the lines were stabilized within two months, at which
point the Chinese Army began to freeze to death in the snow. The Death Toll on the Chinese
was so great that even today, the PRC Government cannot give an accurate tally of their
dead and wounded -their own estimates range wildly from 300,000 casualties to over 800,000 !
His refusal to accept that the Chinese would actually attack him
[as they had hinted}
Well, the Chinese sent in an Army, and got a lot less of it back. Maybe MacArthur was just
unable to accept that Mao Tse-tung was so stupid he was willing to lose an entire army,
including his own son, in a foolish attack in mid winter with untrained and ill equiped troops !
His making his Chief of Staff Edward Almond also a Field Army
commander;
General Edward Almond's career had, like many officers, ups and downs. He had commanded
troops in both World Wars, was well respected by many of his contemporaries, others had issues
with him. His racial beliefs were those of a man of his time and his heritage. He did, in fact,
get surprised by the Chinese Offensive of November 1950, but bounced back and did sterling
work in the mop-up of the Chinese Army in 1951.
The worst that could be said of him was a statement made by one of his fellow officers: " When
it paid to be aggressive, Ned was aggressive. When it paid to be cautious, Ned was aggressive."
Among other awards and honors he won during his miltary career :
Distinguished Service Cross with Oak Leaf Cluster
Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster
Silver Star with Oak Leaf Cluster
Distinguished Flying Cross with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters
Bronze Star with "V" device and Oak Leaf Cluster
Air Medal with 15 Oak Leaf Clusters
Army Commendation Medal with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters
Purple Heart
Korean Service Medal with 4 Campaign Stars
(South Korea)Presidential Unit Citation
(South Korea)United Nations Medal for Korea
His refusal to have Almond's forces fight in concert with Walton
Walker's forces in Pusan;
Even an idiot can see that Almonds' forces were being kept in reserve, with their equipment
being preserved and their manpower being kept fresh, so that they could carry out the landings
at Inchon. If they had been ' frittered away ' down south at Pusan, there would have been no
Miracle at Inchon,
His letting US Forces to the Yalu River instead of the more sensible
course of letting South Koreans chasing the North Koreans and keeping the
US Forces behind the line as support Troops;
Let me see if I understand your somewhat tortured reasoning: You are saying that, when
you are pursuing a defeated enemy, you should keep your best troops in reserve, and only
go forward with your most poorly trained, worst equipped, and under-strength units in
the lead.....
I'll bet you got REALLY good grades at the Army War College......
His deliberate insubordination to the Commander In Chief Harry S Truman;
Let's get one thing straight: Truman didn't fire MacArthur because he was insubordinate,
he fired MacArthur because every time someone compared MacArthur to Truman, Truman
came off looking like the scrawny, weasely, crooked little hack politician he was. Truman
was a failure as a Farmer, a failure as a Businessman, and he got his political offices because
he was a tool of the Pendergast Political Machine, which ran a big chunk of Missouri until
they all got rounded up and put in jail for corruption. The only reason Truman escaped was
because, as soon as he arrived in Washington as the Senator from Pendergast, he attached
himself to the Roosevelt New Dealers, voted the Party Line, and kept his mouth shut.
His time as President was marked by corruption, scandals, and military and diplomatic defeats,
and he wisely chose not to run in 1952 rather than being stomped by Eisenhower.
The refusal of MacArthur and The GOP to understand that Chiang Kai-shek
was in permanent exile in Formosa and that not even a victory of reuniting Korea
would have led to the overthrow of the PRC in China and the restoration of
Chiang Kai-shek....
.
The fact is, the only reason the Mao's Communists won in 1949 was because George C. Marshall
didn't like Chiang Kai-shek. As a result, China became communist, at least 10 million people
were murdered in two years, and we are still paying the price for Marshall's stupidity.
October 14th is coming.
First, you need to use spell check before you post things.
Second, do your homework. 
he snatched defeat from victory.....