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Was it because Truman wanted to fight a more reserved war whereas McArthur moved his troops forward and enticed the Chinese to attack? Did Truman blamed McArthur for forcing the Chinese into the war?
MacArthur thought he was God. When military men in the US get to telling their COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF how to do his job, they're not long for this world.
This was also the second time Mac had tried to set national policy without input from the people who were supposed to do that. His first was at Terowie, South Australia.
why ? the short story is that MacArthur wanted to
take down Red China and Truman didn't think it was worth it.
Truman couldn't trust him anymore to limit the "conflict".
why ? the short story is that MacArthur wanted to
take down Red China and Truman didn't think it was worth it.
Truman couldn't trust him anymore to limit the "conflict".
Mac couldn't "take down Red China", it was insane to try. And it wasn't his call to make anyway, he wasn't the Commander-in-Chief. Except in his own mind, of course.
Mac couldn't "take down Red China", it was insane to try. And it wasn't his call to make anyway, he wasn't the Commander-in-Chief. Except in his own mind, of course.
At one point, he said it would be insane to try a mainland invasion of China,
(quote is in this article) but at the same time:
On Dec. 1, 1950, MacArthur gave an interview to U.S. News and World Report, which was picked up and published in many U.S. and European papers. In it, the general criticized Washington for its refusal to allow him to pursue the Chinese forces. He stated that those limitations were an enormous handicap, and without precedent in military history. Acheson said that MacArthur, by going public with his views, "had perpetrated a major act of sabotage of a Government operation." Truman responded, saying that MacArthur "was ready to start general war. I was not." MacArthur, in his autobiography, wrote that Red China was already fully at war with the U.S. The ostensible reason that Truman fired MacArthur, was that the general had disobeyed Truman's order that no one was to make a public statement on Korea without it first being approved by Washington. Author Courtney Whitney wrote that Acheson's State Department was following British orders to have MacArthur fired, that MacArthur's message had run afoul "of plans being hatched in the State Department to succumb to British pressure...."
The American Caesar? Who would want such a person for President?
I think that's it.
When I think of McArthur, I think of General James Mattoon Scott in "Seven Days In May". This country is based on a military UNDER THE CONTROL of our elected leaders. McArthur came very close to violating that basic premise.
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