I think General MacArthur was one of the finest American generals we have ever seen. I am not going to rewrite history, and desecrate his achievements and success in fighting the enemy in the Pacific.
When communist China poured troops into support of communist North Korea the ante was upped to a point where the use of our game-stopper nukes, came into play. MacArthur learned & understood the warfare lessons demonstrated upon the Eastern Front in WWll: some nations can field more men than bullets can stop, as the Soviets did to the Wehrmacht. The Gemans killed 60,000 in one day, & the soviets kept advancing. It would have taken war-weary US a year or so to call up & reactivate the men & materials necessary to even halt the hosts of the Chinese Army, let alone force them to retreat. We were the only nation in possession of nukes, with Soviet Russia just detonating their first weapon in 1949 and still substantially behind in number of weapons and delivery capability. Had corporal Truman openly supported the potential use of our nukes, and the conventional bombardment of crucial targets in North Korea & China, the Chinese would have come to the bargaining table. Truman exemplified division, cowardice, & confusion that only emboldened & encouraged the communist bloc nations
The greatest general in our time an a very futuristic man. He already predicted the devil. Of communism. And he is right. Look at the world now. Thanks general.
The General's comments on Asia were dead on. Also, his manner of speaking makes many of the so-called leaders since then sound like used car salesman... As to his views on, and conduct of, the Korean War, those views were well known by the Joint chiefs of staff. At any time they could have cabled him and explicitly ordered him to remain silent and follow the Truman policy. It is an order he would have followed, or he would have resigned. But they did not, and that is because they were thoroughly intimidated by the General, so superior in military command was he in comparison to themselves. I wish we had men like him now.
Of course, Douglas MacArthur was at many points in his military career a brilliant strategist and tactician. But there are a few facets wrong with your argument that I would like to address. First and foremost, his views were not in any way shared by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Omar Bradley, as you probably know, discussed policy in Korea with Truman every morning, and discussed the best policy that the administration could administer there. In the only meeting of their careers at Wake Island, after MacArthur's daring and brilliant landing at Inchon, Truman explicitly told MacArthur not to interfere with foreign policy or the political policy the administration would inevitably have to decide on in regards to Korea; MacArthur immediately agreed on this point. Yet MacArthur's unilateral declaration was an act of unparalleled insubordination; issuing an ultimatum to China while the United Nations was engaged in peace talks was an act of deliberate sabotage. Because of this, it was a necessity that MacArthur get fired, for the simple fact that, as Truman put it, the maintenance of world peace was a more important objective than the well-being of any one individual. MacArthur was an excellent general. This is a point that is by and large not up to much debate or scrutiny. But if his firing was necessary for the maintenance of world peace, then it was definitely inevitable.
He would have been a better politician than he was as a General. MacArthur is the sole reason there is a North Korea today. If he had move much more cautiously into North Korea, and not headlong toward the Chinese border, China would not have raised the stakes so high that we would have balked.
@@josephhewes3923 Well arguably that suggests the latter rather than the former. He was so good a General that he did not account for any political fallout, then again he did not think the Chinese would join.
Gen. MaCarthur so loved the Philippines that he mentioned my country five (5) times in his retirement speech. "It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh" and "an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty" are statements that solidify respect in the authority of God as his and our Maker. He is a once in a lifetime soldier and an Army General, and it was just appropriate to commission him to a task of which he only can do and delegate with utmost humility and dignity as a true soldier of God fighting the evils of pacifism and communism. His period was a period of war. A time of almost endless battles between conflicting countries. We are thankful that such good and effective soldier like him was there to defend the world from the dark forces of evil. May God bless his soul.
Those Pacific rim nations owe their great economic might to the General due to he encouraging them to go to a Republican Democratic form of government. He gave them our Constitution as a yardstick and all he said to them was..."What do you think of these words ?" General Doug was a huge Baseball fan and this is why Korea and Japan are crazy about Baseball. Japan has won 3 World Baseball Classics, that is thsnks to Doug.
Oh WoW! He liked baseball? He wrote one of the best Constitutions ever and enacted land reforms that would make mao weep, indeed it became a model for anti-communist land reforms. Edit: Although Japan was and is a Monarchy. If anything, Five-Star General Douglas MacArthur, exemplified a Sei-i Taishōgun in a respectful and dignified manner.
He was more than just a great man for S. Korea? General MacArthur was the greatest hero in South Korea. My grandmother fled to Incheon where she witnessed hundreds of American soldiers getting killed in front of her eyes! She said that the American soldiers were forcing her to get onboard the train while they .. she described the horror of war and the sacrifice it took when America gave their lives for a tiny country called South Korea. The Korean people say that he was a very blunt man in a funny way because he'd ask questions like "Did we get those COMMIE bastards this time? And we'd be like yes, sir! You blew up like 50 Red Chinese soldiers !!! God Bless America !!!
It seems that Gen. Douglas MaCarthur had a sense of prophecy on China's lust of territorial expansion. He was bothered by their aggressiveness. It is now happening, and we in the Philippines are often bullied and thrown out from our very own territory in the Spratly Islands.
People like MacArthur are sadly a relic of the American past in many respects. I love the Philippines. I was married there. If it wasn't for this man, I probably wouldn't have ever met my wife.
USA and Philippines should stay untied and listen to what this man has predicted because I strongly have faith in our combined effort to maintain our way of life. And even today the USA and Philippines continue to have great partnership.
General MacArthur had great hopes for the Philippines. Unfortunately it seems like a few in power are preventing the country from growing. I hope we see free enterprise and capitalism return to the Phillippines and the brother in arms in WW2 rises.
One reporter perfectly summed up the net result of this masterful address: On the Republican side, there was not a dry eye. On the Democrat side, there was not a dry seat.
This speech was given a week and a day after the general was relieved of command by the president.
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Will there ever, again, be such a caliber of an American Leader ? That was among the finest testimonies, in spoken English, of the twentieth century. GOD rest his Soul & replicate his spirit in America.
No, because proper education of the three ‘R’s” has fallen to the wayside. Now teaching political correctness and dumbing down of the young by having to hold back those that are gifted by the school administration in lieu of those students who either are not as bright and are allowed to move forward through the grades including graduation or are illegals who can’t speak English and are catered to by the school administrators. In other words the smart ones are held back because the school administrators don’t want to hurt the feelings of the dumbasses.
My late Dad, First Sgt. Francisco Nacino, who died in the infamous Bataan Death March when Bataan fell to the Japanese invaders during the 2nd World World War. Integrated to the US Army when the Japanese invaded the Philippines. Be was an original member of the Famous Philippines Scouts that the US Army Integrated to their Organization. He died as a member of the US Army. The return of Gen MacArthur to the Philippines was almost 3-4years late.
Lest we forget, the Philippine, Korean and Taiwan people owe their freedoms today to Gen. MacArthur, as do the Japanese for their post war recovery from defeat. The memory of Pres. Truman has long since faded from our minds, but not that of MacArthur and our fighting heroes.
Truman was a LOSER! EVEN FDR was in awe of MacArthur! If it weren't for FDR having a good rapport with MacArthur he would never have been given a command in WWII. MacArthur was as close as you can get to a legend and folk hero.
General Macarthur was supposed to return to Korea but President Truman said that a nuclear war may happen because of you a WAR MONGER soldier? The President is in charge of AMERICA not you GENERAL is that Clear? President Truman did ATOMIC BOMB Japan did not once but TWICE did he not? At ease Doug!
The United States would have won WW2 also without McArthur, Nimitz, Patton, Eisenhower and so on. The Republic was at war with all its might mobilized to win. The People of the United States in its entirety won the war.
YOU ARE EXACTLY RIGHT, HE ACTUALLY TEACH TO THOSE COUNTRY'S DEMOCRACY, ONE OF THE GIANT IN ITS FIELD,..........ITS THE REASON WHY NONE OF THEM ARE DEAD,............. STILL WALKING IN THE SKY!!!!!!!!
Bankers, created over 50 years just what MaCArthur expected. Even in this time the finance of both sides and sneaking technology into China had already begun. MaCArthur wouldn't have realized the deceit, disloyalty already in place.
I cannot help but wonder what the world would look like today, had Truman not fired him and instead allowed him to finish the job in Korea. I remember hearing a statement he once made to a reporter after having received orders from the White House, not to fire across the river into China and that he may only destroy the Korean side of bridges across the river. He said: "In my entire 50 year long military career, no one has ever taught me how to bomb half a bridge. This is the most imbecilic order ever issued in military history."Needless to say this comment was directed toward the president Harry Truman and it didn't take long for the president to hear about it 😂. I can only imagine Truman's reaction 😅
Regardless of what history thinks of him as a general, this was a great speech--especially the opening and the closing. His "goodbye" at the end was barely audible.
The book starts off by both praising him and criticizing him, similar to how Julius Caesar had so many good things but also so many bad things about him. By the end of the book the author is obviously a fanboy of MacArthur. It is wonderful because he started off being a MacArthur hater thanks to him being a former Marine and Marines and Navy HATE MacArthur due to the inter-branch rivalry. By the end of the book he realized Mac had a lot more positive attributes than negatives.
A truly remarkable Genius General D MacArthur. Ability and intelligence, like a President. Of one Nation, it happens that he belongs to a military service.
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If you listen at 29:50 you will hear Gen MacArthur's words describing South Korea and the strength of their people in that situation. The same words describe the Ukrainian people and their situation today. American Caesar by William Manchester is a fantastic book that I highly recommend, for those of you who read books.
It wasn't just insubordination, MacArthur's plan to expand the Korean War by attacking China directly was scrutinized by the US Joint Chiefs. They demolished his plan point by point in a closed session of the Senate hearing in 1951 over MacArthur's dismissal. The Joint Chiefs' assessment was that MacArthur's view was too narrow and his plan totally impractical. For MacArthur, his generalship was severely examined by fellow senior professionals and their conclusion was devastating. Full transcript of the testimony was only becoming available to public after 1971.
Complex subject. Clearly, Truman had every right to fire him as the Executive Controls the military. Philosophically though, it is an unanswered question, was MacArthur right, or was Truman? Truman wanted to "limit war"... which seems like an oxymoron. Had MacArthur continued on as he wanted, into China or to destroy China, undoubtedly Russia would have become involved. MacArthur at one point wanted 30 to 40 atomic weapons used on Chinese cities... what if that had happened? Questions without answers, only consequences.
I don't think so. In this speech he didn't say he wanted to put American boots on the ground in China - but only wanted to attack their supply lines in Manchuria (air strikes) and as a matter of fact the joint Chiefs acquiesced to this request (privately - hadn't informed Mac Yet) the very same day Sen. Joe Martin publicly read the infamous letter Mac sent him critical of the administration. Russia was growing weary and 3 months after Stalin's death the armistice was enacted. Even Ridgeway believed the US & UN could have marched back up to the Yalu successfully, but open admitted it was not his decision to make. Eisenhower was president elect in late '52 when he proclaimed he would go to Korea and came back stateside to issue much harsher "hawk" alternatives he would peruse should China persist in offensive actions. I think Mac made his mistakes - of course - but overall history has proven him more right than wrong
Hmmmm-----------well, I see, there are varied opinions about MacArthur. MY Father served in WW2, in The Marines, on Guadalcanal. He contracted Dengue Fever, & what was then called, " Combat fatigue ", needing 18 months to recover, in New Zealand. ------MY Father was awarded The Navy Cross, for heroism as a machine gunner. ----------AND, MY FATHER HATED------HATED !!---------MacArthur, as did 99% of The Marines, in WW2 . He saw him as a strutting egomaniac, who cared only for his glory, but nothing, for the men who fought, bled, suffered, & died, in the South Pacific. ---------My Father always considered Harry Truman, The greatest POTUS of the 20th Century. So, do I------my Father's oldest Son. Truman, for many reasons, was the best POTUS since LIncoln. ----------------------------Wolfsky9, 74 y/o
I never met a Korean War Veteran who didn't blame "Dougout Doug's" Reckless Behavior for causing the Chinese to enter the war in Korea. Whether he deserved their hatred is debatable, but HATED he was! Some generals were loved by their Troops... Washington, Grant, Pershing, Eisenhower; Even the controversial Patton had some advocates amongst his men. MacArthur, though... I never heard a Korean War Vet ever say anything good about Douglas MacArthur. Everyone of them I ever talked to felt he LOST the war. Apparently this is a part of history most historians choose to ignore.
You must only talk to Marines then. Marines and Navy hate MacArthur because he was a great general and they have penis envy. WWI soldiers loved MacArthur for his service in the Rainbow Division. You read too many Truman and Navy/USMC hagiographies that glorify Truman and the Navy/USMC at the expense of MacArthur. I trust the wise words of actual WWII generals and admirals who say while they think he was an asshole and impossible to be friends with he was the greatest general America ever had. Funny how the Mac haters have amnesia about the 2 million Filipinos who cheered for Mac in Manila on his final trip to the Philippines in 1961 and millions more cheered him on while he toured the rest of the Philippines. Soldiers were whining about Ike and Patton too at the Bulge and Hurtgen Forest and Italy. What are you talking about?
@@kingwilson06adThis is incontrovertible, they just wanted an excuse and I do not understand this limited war bull@#£%. The Chinese invaded Korea against an United Nations mandate yet somehow the West has to be nice.
What the fuck are you talking about? He is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. He gets trashed for liberating the Philippines and rescuing tens of thousands of POWs yet losers like you blame him for the Japanese killing our soldiers. Most of the book talks about atrocities done BEFORE 8/15/45, btw. No evidence is given to support the outrageous claims.
@@nogoodnameleft you need to get your facts right. What i wrote is what happened check out the facts , check out Mountbattens words and the Indian goverments reports. Get real and get the facts. He delayed so he could get his money from the Philipines and that delay cause thousands of pows deaths .if he had gone forward like Nimitz then he would have stopped a lot of the slaughter.
@@almelling6699 ...Maybe it's you who needs to check the ACTUAL facts and not just what you've been fed. Bottom line...the administration supported communism. MacArthur wanted to stop it. So of coarse they are going to villify him. Scroll through the comments and find the comment I left for One Universe if you want some actual facts. Otherwise...SHUT YOUR PIE HOLE!!!
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I think General MacArthur was one of the finest American generals we have ever seen. I am not going to rewrite history, and desecrate his achievements and success in fighting the enemy in the Pacific.
This guy helped Taiwan, Korea, Philippines and Japan become great nations
Richard Nixon said this was the best speech he ever heard.
When communist China poured troops into support of communist North Korea the ante was upped to a point where the use of our game-stopper nukes, came into play. MacArthur learned & understood the warfare lessons demonstrated upon the Eastern Front in WWll: some nations can field more men than bullets can stop, as the Soviets did to the Wehrmacht. The Gemans killed 60,000 in one day, & the soviets kept advancing.
It would have taken war-weary US a year or so to call up & reactivate the men & materials necessary to even halt the hosts of the Chinese Army, let alone force them to retreat. We were the only nation in possession of nukes, with Soviet Russia just detonating their first weapon in 1949 and still substantially behind in number of weapons and delivery capability. Had corporal Truman openly supported the potential use of our nukes, and the conventional bombardment of crucial targets in North Korea & China, the Chinese would have come to the bargaining table. Truman exemplified division, cowardice, & confusion that only emboldened & encouraged the communist bloc nations
This speech was so popular that RCA, Columbia, and Capitol Records all released it on albums.
The greatest general in our time an a very futuristic man. He already predicted the devil. Of communism. And he is right. Look at the world now. Thanks general.
Patton was a better General but other than that I agree with your assessment I'm very proud to see someone still cares thanks man
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And as before the Politicians are careless about what they are doing! Same Ol! same Ol!
He Foreseen the problem with Communist China!!!!!
The General's comments on Asia were dead on.
Also, his manner of speaking makes many of the so-called leaders since then sound like used car salesman...
As to his views on, and conduct of, the Korean War, those views were well known by the Joint chiefs of staff. At any time they could have cabled him and explicitly ordered him to remain silent and follow the Truman policy.
It is an order he would have followed, or he would have resigned.
But they did not, and that is because they were thoroughly intimidated by the General, so superior in military command was he in comparison to themselves.
I wish we had men like him now.
Of course, Douglas MacArthur was at many points in his military career a brilliant strategist and tactician. But there are a few facets wrong with your argument that I would like to address.
First and foremost, his views were not in any way shared by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Omar Bradley, as you probably know, discussed policy in Korea with Truman every morning, and discussed the best policy that the administration could administer there. In the only meeting of their careers at Wake Island, after MacArthur's daring and brilliant landing at Inchon, Truman explicitly told MacArthur not to interfere with foreign policy or the political policy the administration would inevitably have to decide on in regards to Korea; MacArthur immediately agreed on this point. Yet MacArthur's unilateral declaration was an act of unparalleled insubordination; issuing an ultimatum to China while the United Nations was engaged in peace talks was an act of deliberate sabotage. Because of this, it was a necessity that MacArthur get fired, for the simple fact that, as Truman put it, the maintenance of world peace was a more important objective than the well-being of any one individual.
MacArthur was an excellent general. This is a point that is by and large not up to much debate or scrutiny. But if his firing was necessary for the maintenance of world peace, then it was definitely inevitable.
He would have been a better politician than he was as a General. MacArthur is the sole reason there is a North Korea today. If he had move much more cautiously into North Korea, and not headlong toward the Chinese border, China would not have raised the stakes so high that we would have balked.
Thank you Tim I agree 100%
@@josephhewes3923 Well arguably that suggests the latter rather than the former. He was so good a General that he did not account for any political fallout, then again he did not think the Chinese would join.
@@oneuniverse5687 Oh yeah this rightly ruined his reputation. He deserved to be fired even if I adore him.
"We must be patient and understanding and never fail them (the Philippines) -- as in our hour of need, they did not fail us."
Gen. MaCarthur so loved the Philippines that he mentioned my country five (5) times in his retirement speech. "It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh" and "an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty" are statements that solidify respect in the authority of God as his and our Maker. He is a once in a lifetime soldier and an Army General, and it was just appropriate to commission him to a task of which he only can do and delegate with utmost humility and dignity as a true soldier of God fighting the evils of pacifism and communism. His period was a period of war. A time of almost endless battles between conflicting countries. We are thankful that such good and effective soldier like him was there to defend the world from the dark forces of evil. May God bless his soul.
He uttered the immortal words"I shall return" a pledge to the Filipino people
Those Pacific rim nations owe their great economic might to the General due to he encouraging them to go to a Republican Democratic form of government.
He gave them our Constitution as a yardstick and all he said to them was..."What do you think of these words ?"
General Doug was a huge Baseball fan and this is why Korea and Japan are crazy about Baseball. Japan has won 3 World Baseball Classics, that is thsnks to Doug.
Oh WoW! He liked baseball? He wrote one of the best Constitutions ever and enacted land reforms that would make mao weep, indeed it became a model for anti-communist land reforms. Edit: Although Japan was and is a Monarchy. If anything, Five-Star General Douglas MacArthur, exemplified a Sei-i Taishōgun in a respectful and dignified manner.
He was more than just a great man for S. Korea? General MacArthur was the greatest hero in South Korea. My grandmother fled to Incheon where she witnessed hundreds of American soldiers getting killed in front of her eyes! She said that the American soldiers were forcing her to get onboard the train while they .. she described the horror of war and the sacrifice it took when America gave their lives for a tiny country called South Korea. The Korean people say that he was a very blunt man in a funny way because he'd ask questions like "Did we get those COMMIE bastards this time? And we'd be like yes, sir! You blew up like 50 Red Chinese soldiers !!! God Bless America !!!
it is overwhelming to hear great stories like yours. It is Beautiful. .
We are one one.. always be safe.
God bless you and your grandma
He is a modern prophet soldier
It seems that Gen. Douglas MaCarthur had a sense of prophecy on China's lust of territorial expansion. He was bothered by their aggressiveness. It is now happening, and we in the Philippines are often bullied and thrown out from our very own territory in the Spratly Islands.
People like MacArthur are sadly a relic of the American past in many respects. I love the Philippines. I was married there. If it wasn't for this man, I probably wouldn't have ever met my wife.
USA and Philippines should stay untied and listen to what this man has predicted because I strongly have faith in our combined effort to maintain our way of life. And even today the USA and Philippines continue to have great partnership.
General MacArthur had great hopes for the Philippines. Unfortunately it seems like a few in power are preventing the country from growing. I hope we see free enterprise and capitalism return to the Phillippines and the brother in arms in WW2 rises.
And americans failed him 😢 now we are all fucking gonna die
"Under no circumstances must Formosa (Taiwan) fall under Communist control." Very prophetic! MacArthur warned about this 70 years ago.
His Pacific focus is prophetic.
Ronald Reagan and Douglas MacArthur.
The two Greatest Americans of the 20th Century.
One reporter perfectly summed up the net result of this masterful address: On the Republican side, there was not a dry eye. On the Democrat side, there was not a dry seat.
This speech was given a week and a day after the general was relieved of command by the president.
Will there ever, again, be such a caliber of an American Leader ? That was among the finest testimonies, in spoken English, of the twentieth century. GOD rest his Soul & replicate his spirit in America.
President Donald Trump.
No, because proper education of the three ‘R’s” has fallen to the wayside. Now teaching political correctness and dumbing down of the young by having to hold back those that are gifted by the school administration in lieu of those students who either are not as bright and are allowed to move forward through the grades including graduation or are illegals who can’t speak English and are catered to by the school administrators. In other words the smart ones are held back because the school administrators don’t want to hurt the feelings of the dumbasses.
He was a very very great man and soldier.
He wasn't just a military man, but a genius and visionary.
My late Dad, First Sgt. Francisco Nacino, who died in the infamous Bataan Death March when Bataan fell to the Japanese invaders during the 2nd World World War. Integrated to the US Army when the Japanese invaded the Philippines. Be was an original member of the Famous Philippines Scouts that the US Army Integrated to their Organization. He died as a member of the US Army. The return of Gen MacArthur to the Philippines was almost 3-4years late.
I like his character.
Gen. MacArthur referred Gen. Chang Kai-shek and Taiwan(Formosa) 13:22 18:40
Lest we forget, the Philippine, Korean and Taiwan people owe their freedoms today to Gen. MacArthur, as do the Japanese for their post war recovery from defeat. The memory of Pres. Truman has long since faded from our minds, but not that of MacArthur and our fighting heroes.
Truman was a LOSER! EVEN FDR was in awe of MacArthur! If it weren't for FDR having a good rapport with MacArthur he would never have been given a command in WWII. MacArthur was as close as you can get to a legend and folk hero.
@@nogoodnameleft Agreed.
General Macarthur was supposed to return to Korea but President Truman said that a nuclear war may happen because of you a WAR MONGER soldier? The President is in charge of AMERICA not you GENERAL is that Clear? President Truman did ATOMIC BOMB Japan did not once but TWICE did he not? At ease Doug!
MacArthur is to me, a Great Hero.
The United States would have won WW2 also without McArthur, Nimitz, Patton, Eisenhower and so on. The Republic was at war with all its might mobilized to win. The People of the United States in its entirety won the war.
Do Joe Biden and his staff understand what General MacArthur said and visioned? Let’s go Brandon!
YOU ARE EXACTLY RIGHT, HE ACTUALLY TEACH TO THOSE COUNTRY'S DEMOCRACY, ONE OF THE GIANT IN ITS FIELD,..........ITS THE REASON WHY NONE OF THEM ARE DEAD,............. STILL WALKING IN THE SKY!!!!!!!!
We should have listened to him and smashed Communism worldwide!
One of the greatest speech of the world, it always touch my heart.
Bankers, created over 50 years just what MaCArthur expected. Even in this time the finance of both sides and sneaking technology into China had already begun.
MaCArthur wouldn't have realized the deceit, disloyalty already in place.
human rights と言った。
justice と言った。
このくにまだまだだ。
Moder.n warfare is a diffrent kind from the wars of the past.
Douglas Macathur was Right
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He managed the most successful post-war occupation in human history.
He was devotedly anti-communist and yet progressive at the same time. I have got to admire that.
@@johnnotrealname8168 I agree.
Politics and the military is the same in every country. Lincoln had same problemwith mcellan. Mccellen could have usurped lincoln but refused.
He refused to talk politics to his troops, which one has to commend him for given that they were ready to disobey orders.
I cannot help but wonder what the world would look like today, had Truman not fired him and instead allowed him to finish the job in Korea. I remember hearing a statement he once made to a reporter after having received orders from the White House, not to fire across the river into China and that he may only destroy the Korean side of bridges across the river. He said: "In my entire 50 year long military career, no one has ever taught me how to bomb half a bridge. This is the most imbecilic order ever issued in military history."Needless to say this comment was directed toward the president Harry Truman and it didn't take long for the president to hear about it 😂. I can only imagine Truman's reaction 😅
11:43 this is true today as it was then
The best speech ever
Regardless of what history thinks of him as a general, this was a great speech--especially the opening and the closing. His "goodbye" at the end was barely audible.
Listening to this as I wrap up American Caesar. Chills.
What did AMerican Caesar say about him?
same
@@colkidglen8802 its just a summary of his life
showed both sides good and bad
The book starts off by both praising him and criticizing him, similar to how Julius Caesar had so many good things but also so many bad things about him. By the end of the book the author is obviously a fanboy of MacArthur. It is wonderful because he started off being a MacArthur hater thanks to him being a former Marine and Marines and Navy HATE MacArthur due to the inter-branch rivalry. By the end of the book he realized Mac had a lot more positive attributes than negatives.
@@nogoodnameleft American Caesar? Where can I get it? Is it on amazon?
this video is awesome
Hunter S Thompson said that the first time he heard this he thought it was a comedy.
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A truly remarkable Genius General D
MacArthur. Ability and intelligence, like a President. Of one Nation, it happens that he belongs to a military service.
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32:53 the world...
God talking in the flesh
If you listen at 29:50 you will hear Gen MacArthur's words describing South Korea and the strength of their people in that situation. The same words describe the Ukrainian people and their situation today. American Caesar by William Manchester is a fantastic book that I highly recommend, for those of you who read books.
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Nam-myoho-renge-kyo
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I thought this was Lenny Bruce
It wasn't just insubordination, MacArthur's plan to expand the Korean War by attacking China directly was scrutinized by the US Joint Chiefs. They demolished his plan point by point in a closed session of the Senate hearing in 1951 over MacArthur's dismissal. The Joint Chiefs' assessment was that MacArthur's view was too narrow and his plan totally impractical. For MacArthur, his generalship was severely examined by fellow senior professionals and their conclusion was devastating. Full transcript of the testimony was only becoming available to public after 1971.
This is true. But Truman was certainly disliked for this decision, letters about it sent to the White House were 20-1 in MacArthurs favor.
Yet in the long ran, MacArthur’s instinct to take on the communist threat then and there seems better than the alternative.
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Complex subject. Clearly, Truman had every right to fire him as the Executive Controls the military. Philosophically though, it is an unanswered question, was MacArthur right, or was Truman? Truman wanted to "limit war"... which seems like an oxymoron. Had MacArthur continued on as he wanted, into China or to destroy China, undoubtedly Russia would have become involved. MacArthur at one point wanted 30 to 40 atomic weapons used on Chinese cities... what if that had happened? Questions without answers, only consequences.
I don't think so. In this speech he didn't say he wanted to put American boots on the ground in China - but only wanted to attack their supply lines in Manchuria (air strikes) and as a matter of fact the joint Chiefs acquiesced to this request (privately - hadn't informed Mac Yet) the very same day Sen. Joe Martin publicly read the infamous letter Mac sent him critical of the administration. Russia was growing weary and 3 months after Stalin's death the armistice was enacted. Even Ridgeway believed the US & UN could have marched back up to the Yalu successfully, but open admitted it was not his decision to make. Eisenhower was president elect in late '52 when he proclaimed he would go to Korea and came back stateside to issue much harsher "hawk" alternatives he would peruse should China persist in offensive actions. I think Mac made his mistakes - of course - but overall history has proven him more right than wrong
An old soldier who tried to do his duty, but his superior had to fire him because hes a coward
He was fired because of sheer insubordination
@@kingwilson06adBoth are true.
Hmmmm-----------well, I see, there are varied opinions about MacArthur. MY Father served in WW2, in The Marines, on Guadalcanal. He contracted Dengue Fever, & what was then called, " Combat fatigue ", needing 18 months to recover, in New Zealand. ------MY Father was awarded The Navy Cross, for heroism as a machine gunner. ----------AND, MY FATHER HATED------HATED !!---------MacArthur, as did 99% of The Marines, in WW2 . He saw him as a strutting egomaniac, who cared only for his glory, but nothing, for the men who fought, bled, suffered, & died, in the South Pacific. ---------My Father always considered Harry Truman, The greatest POTUS of the 20th Century. So, do I------my Father's oldest Son. Truman, for many reasons, was the best POTUS since LIncoln. ----------------------------Wolfsky9, 74 y/o
3:31 you cannot...
I never met a Korean War Veteran who didn't blame "Dougout Doug's" Reckless Behavior for causing the Chinese to enter the war in Korea. Whether he deserved their hatred is debatable, but HATED he was!
Some generals were loved by their Troops... Washington, Grant, Pershing, Eisenhower; Even the controversial Patton had some advocates amongst his men. MacArthur, though... I never heard a Korean War Vet ever say anything good about Douglas MacArthur. Everyone of them I ever talked to felt he LOST the war. Apparently this is a part of history most historians choose to ignore.
You must only talk to Marines then. Marines and Navy hate MacArthur because he was a great general and they have penis envy. WWI soldiers loved MacArthur for his service in the Rainbow Division. You read too many Truman and Navy/USMC hagiographies that glorify Truman and the Navy/USMC at the expense of MacArthur. I trust the wise words of actual WWII generals and admirals who say while they think he was an asshole and impossible to be friends with he was the greatest general America ever had. Funny how the Mac haters have amnesia about the 2 million Filipinos who cheered for Mac in Manila on his final trip to the Philippines in 1961 and millions more cheered him on while he toured the rest of the Philippines. Soldiers were whining about Ike and Patton too at the Bulge and Hurtgen Forest and Italy. What are you talking about?
The Chinese were already ready to attack they were across the border in Northern Korea all they were waiting was for the Command to attack!
@@JR-ez3zd Exactly! 300,000 Chinese troops.
@@kingwilson06adThis is incontrovertible, they just wanted an excuse and I do not understand this limited war bull@#£%. The Chinese invaded Korea against an United Nations mandate yet somehow the West has to be nice.
Japan liberated ASIA from western colonies and chenged the world
This egotistical man caused the desths of hundreds and thousand allied pows. See the Final Betrayal ,
What the fuck are you talking about? He is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. He gets trashed for liberating the Philippines and rescuing tens of thousands of POWs yet losers like you blame him for the Japanese killing our soldiers. Most of the book talks about atrocities done BEFORE 8/15/45, btw. No evidence is given to support the outrageous claims.
@@nogoodnameleft you need to get your facts right. What i wrote is what happened check out the facts , check out Mountbattens words and the Indian goverments reports. Get real and get the facts. He delayed so he could get his money from the Philipines and that delay cause thousands of pows deaths .if he had gone forward like Nimitz then he would have stopped a lot of the slaughter.
@@almelling6699 비난하기를 즐기는가? 전쟁은? 당신이 생각하는 컴퓨터 게임처럼 쉽게 이길 수 없다.
@@almelling6699 ...Maybe it's you who needs to check the ACTUAL facts and not just what you've been fed. Bottom line...the administration supported communism. MacArthur wanted to stop it. So of coarse they are going to villify him. Scroll through the comments and find the comment I left for One Universe if you want some actual facts. Otherwise...SHUT YOUR PIE HOLE!!!
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