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McArthur was not fired for wanting to fight the Chinese. He was entitled to want to fight anybody he wanted to.

McArthur was fired for forgetting who the Commander in Chief was while angling to make a run for the job himself. McArthur was fired for attempting to formulate policy on the battlefield, and for a policy that probably would NOT have defeated the Chinese (may have moved the standoff to a point different from the 37th parallel, though), but probably WOULD have killed a million or so Americans and moved the Berlin Wall to the beaches of Normady.

I personally think Truman should have shot the cocksucker, just like Nixon should have shot the JCS Chairman caught spying on him.

Remember the whole "civilian control of the military" thing? (I didn't say you had to like it ... just acknowledge that it is the system we live under).

As far as the Vietnam war goes ... , I think the start of the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam was should INCLUDE the period when we fought the North Vietnamese with French proxies (we paid for it ... we ought to claim it).

Whole lotta folks got us into that clusterfuck ... liberals and conservatives, Catholics, etc. In the early days it was the opinion of many on the right who thought it was a dumb thing to do; they only came to support the war once U.S. force was committted.

BTW, XXXPhoto - the French had been fucking Vietnam for 300-400 years before the Japanese came in; so when the Japanese left, it was an attempt to keep it. We didn't do a hell of a lot better than the French, now, did we? Remember, too, that the French actually understood that the nature of the war was not "Communism" vs "freedom", but imperialism vs. nationalism. We never did quite get that.



Last edited by PornoDoggy at Jun 7 2004, 09:29 PM