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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: Dayuhan who wrote (20602)4/6/1999 7:48:00 AM
From: nihil  Read Replies (2) of 71178
 
I can't be responsible for Filopinos' misconceptions about Japan nor should MacArthur be held responsible. If you don't think MacArthur loved the Philippines, you're simply wrong. That his father was a conqueror and oppressor there is little doubt, but he was a soldier under command and much of the worst oppression came after he was gone. If they criticize his desire to liberate the Philippines first, instead of heading for China or Japan, then IMO they are wrong. The invasion saved the lives of millions of Filipinos who would have starved or been murdered if thay have been bypassed IMO. Many Japanese bypassed in New Guinea ended up eating one another and killing each other off. The U.S. was very tight about gifts to postwar Japan -- there was starvation in 1945-46. The U.S. has been stingy in treating the veterans who fought during the war and in the resistance. There are hundreds of them here who will die before the United States recognizes their obligations to them. Not MacArthur's fault. Mac's desertion from Corregidor was under direct orders from FDR. You know, of course, that the C-in-C must not be captured because to save the lives of local troops on Corregidor, he would have had surrender everything under his command. I suspect he would have preferred to stay and be captured or killed. He was forbidden to do so. Taken all in all, he was a man. We shall not look upon his like again.
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