Gen MacArther: A dangerous concept. Definitely applies to where we are now.
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To be quite honest I have read multiple takes on him and his works. Each with its own flagrant agenda.
For me - reading in the subtext of how a war is fought says many things.
For example - the one thing that is fascinating about US History is the very limited scope of direct involvement with wars Americans have. War is always “over there”.
For example a conquered State is usually a vassal after that - yes? The Japanese never once hit the US mainland & the response is indiscriminate firebombings of Tokyo & eventually plutonium / uranium based Nuclear Munitions? In US schools this is taught as “it was the only way to make them submit” - false given Japan was already submitting once Russia closed the German Front and Stalin told Japan he was now focusing on them. They knew there was no way. MacArthur bombed them anyway.
I understand the need for respect - and with MacArthur the thing is I had to dig quite a bit to get to “deep state” talking points about him wanting to be Cesar. That doesn’t seem like the normal Deep State play at all - usually it’s a terraformed forced history, yes?
Although I could be mistaken, my recollection is that the decision to Nuke Japan was not MacArthur's.
Either way, I have enjoyed a lifelong conviction that MacArthur is and was the greatest patriot of his time.
As for him wanting a body count, that's downright disgusting. I cannot explain all the various elements behind my personal conviction re: him.
FYI, the Japanese came to respect the USA, appreciate the USA, and establish the lifelong alliance with the USA precisely because of Gen. D. MacArthur. No other factor is as directly responsible.
FWIW, I lived in Japan for 8 years, and understand their psyche and history very well. (in my own opinion of course, but there it is)
General Curtis LeMay was the one who pushed the brutality.
MacArthur didn’t argue - LeMay could have been easily downtrodden by MacArthur ( my understanding so correct me there if I am wrong ).
I have immense respect for the Japanese. If you want to see some interesting stuff check back in the old Godzilla movies. Sort of random, yes, they spanned such a long time that they actually show some of the less graceful predictive programming. Overpopulation was the core story tenet from the first movie forward and many of them are openly saying that the TV Stations were fully run by the Pharmaceutical Companies ( the earlier movies explained the giant animals were that way because of a rare red Berry heh that pharma wanted desperately ). The first King along vs Godzilla for ref.
I have a question. My understanding is that the Japanese would have never ever attacked ina sneak attack in 1941. They told the US they were attacking correct? Someone either kept it from FDR or he pretended he didn’t hear - just like he pretended the McCollum memo wasn’t real?
As far as I know, the attack was indeed a sneak attack. I don't know anything to the contrary.
What is perhaps worthy of dispute is what conditions the Americans and the Europeans created that may have forced Japan's hand. Nonetheless, from an ethical or spiritual viewpoint the Allied position was one of representing Freedom and God-centered culture, and the German axis - including Japan, represented Totalitarianism and denial of God-centered freedoms.
Japanese was under a deep state like military junta who had previously usurped the central role, by co-opting the authority of the Emperor. Indeed, for centuries the Emperors did not have any substantial political or military power. In the 1500's Tokogawa instituted the shogunate system, and that persisted up until the Meiji restoration in the 1800's.
People who had no real understanding of Japan wanted to see Hirohito tried and sentenced as a war criminal. MacArthur understood that this would have created an even worse situation than the won that followed WW1 where the "allied" powers essentially set the conditions for WW2 to emerge.
His recollections of the whole process in Japan after they surrendered and the role he played is well worth a read, imo.
Where I am unclear on with Japan was how they got from fighting Russia to the War Stance that lead them to thinking attacking China etc was a forward position. I am rusty on Japanese history - I appreciate any insight you have as my normal method is to read & research then verify first hand. I don’t have a ton of direct Japanese resources in that regard.
Regarding the US / Europe setting the stage to trigger Japan - %100 true.
FDR asked one of the lead political analyst, McCollum, in Washington DC to create an “itinerary to make Japan increasingly hostile”. The result was the McCollum memo which outlined at a point 8 specific things that if done would lead Japan to a war stance. FDR made sure they were all done in that exact order. McCollum later regretted providing FDR with that information. We also know Japan did absolutely say they were coming and the surprise attack thing was only a matter of Japan never explicitly saying where they would attack. DC pushed the story that it was without honor and they were never informed. In truth Japan warned of their impending attack to the US-Japanese Ambassador in DC. It was hushed by FDR and later claimed to have been “lost in the cables”.