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« on: July 17, 2022, 09:03:55 PM »
Gigachad imo
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« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2022, 02:08:19 PM »
Douglas MacArthur was not the greatest military leader and supported segregation in the US military, so he is an HP in my book.
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« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2022, 02:19:13 PM »
HP but successful regime in Japan.  I actually do think nuking Korea would have been the tactically smart choice as well and the USSR was in no position to retaliate . However the standard it would have set would have been dangerous for the future.
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« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2022, 02:26:12 PM »
FF if you judge him by what he did in Japan. HP if you look at him overall.
He ran Japan so well there were many Japanese people cheering on his presidential ambitions in 1952.
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« Reply #4 on: July 18, 2022, 05:43:11 PM »
Quote from: lfromnj on July 18, 2022, 02:19:13 PM
HP but successful regime in Japan.  I actually do think nuking Korea would have been the tactically smart choice as well and the USSR was in no position to retaliate . However the standard it would have set would have been dangerous for the future.

FTR MacArthur wanted to nuke China, not Korea.  And he didn't want to use nuclear bombs to kill people, he wanted to use them to basically create a wall between Korea and China so that China wouldn't be able to battle Americans in Korea by land.
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« Reply #5 on: July 18, 2022, 06:32:35 PM »
HP, and he failed in his duties in Japan by not having Hirohito killed.
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« Reply #6 on: July 18, 2022, 06:38:07 PM »
HP, but the results of the Japan occupation were impressive.
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« Reply #7 on: July 18, 2022, 07:00:07 PM »
Quote from: Donerail on July 18, 2022, 06:24:30 PM
Quote from: GeneralMacArthur on July 18, 2022, 05:43:11 PM
Quote from: lfromnj on July 18, 2022, 02:19:13 PM
HP but successful regime in Japan.  I actually do think nuking Korea would have been the tactically smart choice as well and the USSR was in no position to retaliate . However the standard it would have set would have been dangerous for the future.

FTR MacArthur wanted to nuke China, not Korea.  And he didn't want to use nuclear bombs to kill people, he wanted to use them to basically create a wall between Korea and China so that China wouldn't be able to battle Americans in Korea by land.
No, he wanted to use the nuclear bombs to kill people — that's what they're for. He proposed dropping 30-50 on cities in both Korea and China. The "wall" would have been radioactive waste or some other sort of radioactive substance, used to create a line across the northern border of Korea (would be highly inefficient to create such a line with nuclear bombs). You're conflating the details of two separate but linked proposals.

Sorry, I didn't mean to downplay the impact of the nuclear bombs -- just that the tactical purpose was to block Chinese logistics on the Korean peninsula, not specifically to cause death and destruction like the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombs.
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« Reply #8 on: July 19, 2022, 02:36:21 AM »
Quote from: lfromnj on July 18, 2022, 02:19:13 PM
HP but successful regime in Japan.  I actually do think nuking Korea would have been the tactically smart choice as well and the USSR was in no position to retaliate . However the standard it would have set would have been dangerous for the future.
He should've arrested Hirohito
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« Reply #9 on: July 19, 2022, 01:23:14 PM »
Bright and not so bright spots in his life, though overall a smug guy. Truman definitely made the correct decision to fire him in Korea. On balance, HP.
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« Reply #10 on: July 19, 2022, 01:26:41 PM »
He should've made himself Emperor of Japan so HP for not doing that
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« Reply #11 on: July 19, 2022, 06:35:00 PM »
Questionable General at best, nuke-happy warmonger at worst. HP.
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« Reply #12 on: July 19, 2022, 07:34:45 PM »
Who cares about the nukes, his disastrous handling of the Bonus Army protests alone is all it should take for a HP vote.
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