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To: BlueCrab who wrote (20584)4/6/1999 1:53:00 AM
From: JF Quinnelly  Read Replies (1) of 71178
 
MacArthur cut an impressive figure and gave a good speech, but it looks like it was his personal failure that doomed the American base in the Phillipines after Pearl Harbor. He had plenty of time to disperse the planes at Clark Field and failed to do so. And he sent the troops into Corregidor where they were trapped. The few who instead fled into the hills were able to fight the Japanese occupation force for years. General MacArthur was problem enough. President MacArthur... it's a good thing it was President Eisenhower

I don't know if Truman should have threatened to use atomic bombs in Korea. The threat of doing so seems to be what allowed Eisenhower to end the fighting. The US was in a terrible position in Korea. So badly outnumbered that we had to attack and attack, because if we gave the enemy time to regroup they could well have destroyed the whole army. It looks like the sort of strategy that Lee had to use in the Civil War.
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