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How insane were Douglas McArthur and Curtis LeMay?
Posted on 10/12/18 at 7:23 am
Posted on 10/12/18 at 7:23 am
McArthur
“Of all the campaigns of my life, 20 major ones to be exact, [Korea was] the one I felt most sure of was the one I was deprived of waging. I could have won the war in Korea in a maximum of 10 days.... I would have dropped between 30 and 50 atomic bombs on his air bases and other depots strung across the neck of Manchuria.... It was my plan as our amphibious forces moved south to spread behind us—from the Sea of Japan to the Yellow Sea—a belt of radioactive cobalt. It could have been spread from wagons, carts, trucks and planes.... For at least 60 years there could have been no land invasion of Korea from the north. The enemy could not have marched across that radiated belt."
LeMay:
“I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them.”
LeMay’s protege Thomas Power was also a piece of work:
When a Rand study advocated limiting nuclear strikes at the outset of a war with the Soviet Union, Power asked him, "Why are you so concerned with saving their lives? The whole idea is to kill the bastards … At the end of the war, if there are two Americans and one Russian, we win."
“Of all the campaigns of my life, 20 major ones to be exact, [Korea was] the one I felt most sure of was the one I was deprived of waging. I could have won the war in Korea in a maximum of 10 days.... I would have dropped between 30 and 50 atomic bombs on his air bases and other depots strung across the neck of Manchuria.... It was my plan as our amphibious forces moved south to spread behind us—from the Sea of Japan to the Yellow Sea—a belt of radioactive cobalt. It could have been spread from wagons, carts, trucks and planes.... For at least 60 years there could have been no land invasion of Korea from the north. The enemy could not have marched across that radiated belt."
LeMay:
“I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them.”
LeMay’s protege Thomas Power was also a piece of work:
When a Rand study advocated limiting nuclear strikes at the outset of a war with the Soviet Union, Power asked him, "Why are you so concerned with saving their lives? The whole idea is to kill the bastards … At the end of the war, if there are two Americans and one Russian, we win."
This post was edited on 10/12/18 at 7:26 am
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Posted on 10/12/18 at 7:26 am to Draconian Sanctions
They had too much MAGA in’em.
Posted on 10/12/18 at 7:30 am to Draconian Sanctions
IMO MacArthur wasn't nuts......LeMay IMO was
This post was edited on 10/12/18 at 10:35 am
Posted on 10/12/18 at 7:30 am to Draconian Sanctions
They come from a time when American lives meant more than anyone else. In today's world we treat all human life pretty much the same. To them 1 american was worth more than 100 of any other country's population. They also believed in total war. Which is why they wouldve never lost. Great men in my eyes
Posted on 10/12/18 at 7:33 am to Draconian Sanctions
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At the end of the war, if there are two Americans and one Russian, we win."
Pussified Americans have lost this way of thinking. We apologize for our exceptionality. frick all that! I like winning.
Posted on 10/12/18 at 7:34 am to Hawgnsincebirth55
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They come from a time when American lives meant more than anyone else.
And apparently had no regard for the amount of American lives lost in the long term as a result of their actions.
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Great men in my eyes
No. Kennedy and Truman were for not listening to these nutjobs. I call them crazy because it’s either that or they were just plain stupid. Your choice I guess.
This post was edited on 10/12/18 at 7:38 am
Posted on 10/12/18 at 7:36 am to Draconian Sanctions
McArthur was right
He also said that we fought the wrong guys in Europe in ww2
He also said that we fought the wrong guys in Europe in ww2
Posted on 10/12/18 at 7:36 am to Draconian Sanctions
quote:politicians who didnt understand warfare who were both pussies for their time.
Kennedy and Truman
Posted on 10/12/18 at 7:36 am to CoachChappy
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Pussified Americans have lost this way of thinking. We apologize for our exceptionality. frick all that! I like winning.
Idiot
You think leaving America as an irradiated wasteland is winning just bc it would be slightly less irradiated than the enemy’s home land?
Posted on 10/12/18 at 7:36 am to Draconian Sanctions
Douglas MacArthur was a POS who was more concerned with his own vain glory than heeding his subordinates’ warnings.
Posted on 10/12/18 at 7:37 am to Hawgnsincebirth55
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politicians who didnt understand warfare who were both pussies for their time.
And without those pussies you’d have never have been born
Amazing how clueless some of you bumpkins on here are
Posted on 10/12/18 at 7:38 am to Draconian Sanctions
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You think leaving America as an irradiated wasteland is winning just bc it would be slightly less irradiated than the enemy’s home land?
Korea didn’t have nukes then dummy
Posted on 10/12/18 at 7:39 am to el Gaucho
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Korea didn’t have nukes then dummy
Yeah and if we dropped fricking 50 of them during Korea what message does it send to the word about the acceptability of using nuclear weapons in a non total war scenario?
Maybe try thinking more than two steps in front of you.
This post was edited on 10/12/18 at 7:40 am
Posted on 10/12/18 at 7:41 am to el Gaucho
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we fought the wrong guys in Europe in ww2
No moral difference in the Soviet Union and the Nazis.
Posted on 10/12/18 at 7:42 am to Draconian Sanctions
Maybe the fallout would blow over the pacific and make a bunch of mutated weak skinny men with ear gauges and fat women with purple hair on the west coast
Oh wait it’s already like that
Oh wait it’s already like that
Posted on 10/12/18 at 7:43 am to RogerTheShrubber
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No moral difference in the Soviet Union and the Nazis.
I would’ve rather the Nazis and Soviets go on killing each other without our throwing in there. More dead Nazis and more dead Communists. What’s not to love?
Posted on 10/12/18 at 7:43 am to Draconian Sanctions
Insane? Insanely awesome maybe.
If you’re going to go to war, commit to it and commit to winning.
If you’re going to go to war, commit to it and commit to winning.
Posted on 10/12/18 at 7:45 am to RogerTheShrubber
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No moral difference in the Soviet Union and the Nazis.
Germany just wanted a little land in Poland to plant crops
The ussr took over the world with communism. One of the two American political parties was taken over by them
Posted on 10/12/18 at 7:49 am to coolpapaboze
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Insane? Insanely awesome maybe.
You think the death of, conservatively, 80 million Americans is awesome?
Posted on 10/12/18 at 7:50 am to TigerFanInSouthland
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I would’ve rather the Nazis and Soviets go on killing each other without our throwing in there. More dead Nazis and more dead Communists. What’s not to love?
Win/Win.
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