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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (20592)4/6/1999 2:05:00 AM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (2) 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.

On this I agree. They probably would have been defeated in any event, mainly because MacArthur (and he was not alone here) totally underestimated the Japanese, but the defeat was far worse than it might have otherwise been.

Odd to think that if the US hadn't grabbed the Philippines in 1898, Pearl Harbor would probably not have been bombed, and the US might not have entered the war in time to save the British. History is a strange place.
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