On Korea, MacArthur was right

[rangerrebew]

On Korea, MacArthur was right

    BY R. L. SCHREADLEY Aug 18, 2017 (3)

“Let civilian voices argue the merits or demerits of our processes of government: Whether our strength is being sapped by deficit financing indulged in too long, by Federal paternalism grown too mighty, by power groups grown too arrogant, by politics grown too corrupt, by crime grown too rampant, by morals grown too low, by extremists grown too violent; whether our personal liberties are as thorough and complete as they should be.

“These great national problems are not for your professional participation or military solution. Your guidepost stands out like a ten-fold beacon in the night: Duty, honor, country.”

— Gen. Douglas MacArthur, at the U.S. Military Academy, May 12, 1962

http://www.postandcourier.com/opinion/commentary/on-korea-macarthur-was-right/article_5a09d60c-838e-11e7-b948-8f24e42831bd.html

[Mad Max]

MacArthur should have been allowed to use nuclear weapons on China. This would have ended the war within a week

MacArthur said:

 I would have dropped between 30 and 50 atomic bombs on his air bases and other depots strung across the neck of Manchuria.... It was my plan as our amphibious forces moved south to spread behind us—from the Sea of Japan to the Yellow Sea—a belt of radioactive cobalt. It could have been spread from wagons, carts, trucks and planes.... For at least 60 years there could have been no land invasion of Korea from the north. The enemy could not have marched across that radiated belt.

http://www.nytimes.com/1964/04/09/texts-of-accounts-by-lucas-and-considine-on-interviews-with-macarthur-in-1954.html