"MacArthur wasn't fired for being a damned fool, which he certainly was, but that's no crime. If it was we'd have to fire almost all of the generals. He was fired for disobeying a presidential order."
>>17984457Truman seemed to have some kind of personality disorder. Every quote of his is some neurotic bitching.
>have the most powerful position in the US>STILL seethe about being ordered around by your superior officer as an artillery captain 3 decades agoBuild a bridge and get over it Harry
>>17984458it's called being from the Midwest
MacArthur was right
>>17984468His nuclear Hearts of Iron world conquest would have lasted about as long as Alexander the Great's.
>>17984471Sure it would've Chang
>>17984474If he was such a hardass why didn't he coup Truman?
>sending troops with no wamr clothing into the mountains of North Korea with winter approachingGood fucking job, Dugout Dug. FDR should have left him to die on Corregidor like he wanted.
>>17984486It's amazing he wasn't drawn and quartered by the Marines that survived in the jungle on their own after being abandoned in the Philippines.
MacArthur was 70 when the Korean War started, some wondered if he wasn't a little too old for this job. He was still brilliant as the Inchon Landing showed, but was making sloppy mistakes the MacArthur of 1944 wouldn't have made.
everyone who knew anything about China knew they absolutely would enter the war if the US invaded DPRK, but the State Department had purged all their old China experts over the last three years
>>17984471>>17984486like a lot of generals he had a bad tendency of viewing soldiers as pieces on a chessboard instead of living human beings who needed to eat, rest etc.
he also required Japan to have pixelated porn crotches and made Japanese women wear underwear under their kimonos
>>17984471Genociding the Chinks would have been better for humanity in the long run
>>17984457Unironically one of the best things Truman did
>>17984458MacArthur wanted to start Nuclear Fucking War
>>17984477Real question was why not just run for POTUS? It worked for Ike, and he had the disadvantage of being gay in the 50s
Reminder Bruce Willis was an army brat born in 1955 in West Germany.MacArthur was a dejected former general moping around West Germany in 1954
>>17985185MacArthur was touted as a presidential candidate since the war, but unlike Eisenhower he was too flamboyant and up his own ass. He was also a pet of 1950s /pol/tards.
>>17984458With the people he had to deal with, I get it.
>>17985235that was why George Washington became head of the Continental Army over some of the more egomaniacal generals, even if some had better tactical skills than him
>>17985154That bastard.
When MacArthur was fired it was the first time he'd set foot on the US mainland since 1938.
>>17987877The main ruled over his post like a Roman consul
>>17987877and he had a 13 year old son who'd never been to the continental US before
>>17984512The U.S has a tendency to do that, for some reason. Just purge their goverment of people with a deep understanding of whatever region they are supposed to be monitoring and replacing them with massive fucking retards.
