[Don Corleone]

our first was MacArthur, who seemed at times to care more about how much gold braid decorated the brim of his cap than he did about how many bodies he left on beachheads across the Pacific.

Another example of an outright LIE by the NYT as MacArthur actually lost fewer men in the entire Pacific war than Eisenhower did in his invasion on D-Day! Check it out!Doug may have been flamboyant but he was a leader dedicated to protecting his soldiers and, like Patton, a military genius.

[Strategerist]

like Patton, a military genius.

How does a military genius get his entire air force destroyed on the ground in the Phillipines 10 hours after Pearl Harbor?

And how does a military genius deliberately ignore multiple reports of Chinese troops in large numbers in Korea?

[Notary Sojac]

I never got to meet my uncle. He died in 1944 so that MacArthur could stride onto that Leyte Beach for the news photographers.

We could have saved tens of thousands of lives by bypassing the Philippines and going on to Formosa as Admirals King and Nimitz recommended, but that would not have allowed Doug to declaim "I have returned".

Protected his soldiers, my ass.