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I have a great deal of respect for brilliant and incisive Dr. Sowell but it was Admiral Nimitz who was the architect of the island hopping campaign.
MacArthur, also know as “Dugout Doug”, was more interested in a southern route to make up for his complete hash of the Philippine’s during the “surprise” attack by the Japanese that was predicted by Billy Mitchell a decade previously.
I am sure that 10’s of thousands of young American lives would have been spared, including my uncles, if FDR had listened to Nimitiz exclusively instead of trying to follow both the army and the navy plans.
Perhaps FDR was more interested in expanding the USA’s imperial reach than ending the war with Japan months earlier.
The question is: what’s the difference between “rich” and “wealthy”? According to the Democrats anyone earning over $75,000 per year is rich. That means a fireman making $45,000 a year married to a teacher making $40,000 qualifies them as being “rich”.
Good article by Thomas Sowell. Thanks for posting. Cut, continually cut and constantly cut. Then, cut any one of the 536 collectivists that aren’t cutting continually and constantly.