Gen. Mac Arthur - I Shall Return

[msinalan]

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[lanzolives]

0:14 for the "i shall return"

[ikesuarez1]

Sutherland was the AH who prevented the USAAF general who wanted to immediately bomb Formosa from seeing Macarthur. Tempermentally, Ike did not understand the Latino-Asian culture of the Philippines. Most Filipinos of the greatest generation would not have begrudged Macarthur's payment

[ikesuarez1]

Filipinos of the Greatest generation hold Macarthur in high regard. OK, he had a blackout. But a few questions: why were rifles he requested for the Philippine Army a searly as 1938 not released by Washington. The Philippines had US $50 million in 1940 dollars deposited in trust. President Quezon of the Commonwealth of the Philippines had repeatedly asked that amount to be able to equip at least one regular Philippine Army Division. The amount came only on the eve of WW2..

[edanvsmagnvs]

I'll be back

[PrettySuperWoman]

Hail Caesar, He even looks like Caesar, He was my favorite American General for sure.

[emmthreejonny]

"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction."

- General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)

[misyespitelk]

I thought the man sitting next to the General looked like Alan Alda

[SwampDawgy]

Greatest General we ever had. Look what he did in Korea.

[yvesmiclat1]

this voice is not McArthur

[TheArvinian01]

@yvesmiclat1 how did you know?

[campusliberty1]

America's greatest fighting general!

[quig66]

I guess no one remembers his time at Clarke Airfield and his reaction upon learning of the attack on Pearl Harbour; sitting on the edge of his bunk holding a bible and rocking back and forth. American Caesar my ass.

[Jairus414]

y did he leave again??

[drum3433]

Gen. MacArthur (aka "Dugout Doug") should have been given more harsh treatment and court martialed after the Japanese attack on the Philipines. First of all the attack occured after Pearl Harbor. Why was he caught off guard when the Philipines were attacked? Why was the Army Air Force destroyed on the ground? Why wasn't a mobile counter attck force in the ready to respond to a Japanese beach landing before a solid footing was established? Oh well,, I have run out of space to post more.

[emmthreejonny]

@drum3433 - The attack happened a day later perhaps hours the least. The USAFFE were armed mostly with WWI era weaponry. The air force was not entirely caught off guard, however, these airplanes were the Boeing P-26 "Peashooter" fighting against the much more advanced Japanese 'zeros'. This didn't stop from making pilots like Jesus Villamor become an ace pilot early in the war.

[drum3433]

@emmthreejonny I understand your points however he was not judeged harshly, in comparison to the treatment given to Admiral Husband Kimmel, Commander of the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor.

[Dr3adn0ught35]

@emmthreejonny well, the attack actually happened on the same day a pearl harbor and the reason why the US and Filipino (yes thats how its spelled) knew that they could not hold japan on the beaches and so fell back further inland to defend from there, problem was that most of the defense was made of Filipino militia. eventually Macarthur was pushed back to the Bataan Peninsula. and the rest you should know. Drum3433 read about history before making rash comments

[ScapeCrisis]

@drum3433 The attack on Manila happened the same time as in Pearl Harbor (Dec. 7, early morning in the then American commonwealth state of hawaii) is Dec. 8 (Mid day in the then American commonwealth state of the Philippines

[olexyd]

@drum3433

Read Manchester's book.....very fair and impartial.

[ikesuarez1]

Manchester was a marine. No love lost then between Macarthur and the Marines. manchester, as with most US marines didn't like armymen. Macarthur felt that same way too on the eve of WW2. In fact, he wanted the USMC 4th marines assigned as guards to free the Philippine Constabulary for beach defense.

[am1966ath]

@drum3433 You are right, and the general fled with his staff and Phillippino gold to Australia.

[devilcruiser]

@drum3433 First of all US remain neutral, there cannot be any engage of war unless it is officially declared, US can do at that time is to give support as mutual intention to its remaining allies,McArthur also has no power to persuade the congress to decalred war so he remain neutral untill the Japs made a wrong move decission, if McArthur had just given the command to defend the Phil's before the war, The Japs would be sorry to its more powerful heavily guard fortresses like Cordillera & Bataan

[trajan75]

@drum3433 Nothing could have prevented a Japanese victory in the Philippines. MacArthur should have scrambled the Air Force but it would have made no difference. The US high command not MacArthur decided that there could be no counter attack. Your suggestions are naive. For the balance of the war MacArthur took more territory with fewer casualties than any other allied General.

[lunafringe10]

every place the US has been to was sucked dry, thats a fact, look at south america

[GARfredable]

@lunafringe10 after the surrender of Japan. America worked with them to get their country and economy back on track. They're now the 3rd wealthiest country in the world. So to say that every place US has been to has been sucked dry, is obviously a joke.

[lunafringe10]

McArthur thought of himself as some kind of roman emperor, Imperium Romanum, After the japs wiped his ass in the philippines,

[lesorciercalifornien]

\We should have let Japan keep the Philippines and do to them what they did to Nanking. Then they wouldn't be infesting our country the way they are now.

[onetymeonly]

@lesorciercalifornien - The only thing infesting your country are stupid and arrogant cum stains like you.

[tubedude101]

i was born in pinas lets bomb the phillipines

[fmkuae]

ugh why am I watching this? I shall not return

[Xanxus29]

tang ina peo kailangan natin respeto sha..

nang dahil s kanya naging malaya ang filipinas...

kaya wag n kau gumawa ng tang ina kwento

sa kanya..

[vonbon26]

it was personal to him :D he like how the filipina sucks his cock

[Coins4Cheese]

It wasn't him that returned. It was American industrial might that returned.

[emmthreejonny]

@Coins4Cheese - He can't liberate a country with doves and sweet music.

[Crappy1441]

@emmthreejonny your a filipino and if if your asking me. Yes I am a filipino

[danielJamesFernandez]

@Coins4Cheese but was leading the American indutrial might so He have return to our motherland

[danielJamesFernandez]

@Coins4Cheese but was leading the American indutrial might so, He and the American indutrial might have return to our motherland

[danielJamesFernandez]

@Coins4Cheese but was leading the American indutrial might so, He and the American indutrial might have return to our motherland

[danielJamesFernandez]

@Coins4Cheese but was leading the American indutrial might so, He and the American indutrial might have return to our motherland

[danielJamesFernandez]

@Coins4Cheese but was leading the American indutrial might so, He and the American indutrial might have return to our motherland

[VPAgustin]

Philippines paid this guy just to come back, destroyed the whole country and made a propaganda to "liberate" the country? This fellow came back alright, but he destroyed everything!!! The sad thing about it is this mf went to Japan and rebuild Japan and protected the emperor from war crimes. He left the Philippines in shambles and still got paid by a country who have valiantly fought on their wars!!!

[emmthreejonny]

@VPAgustin - My grandparents both survivors of the war and witnesses to the Liberation first hand say the exact opposite of what you insinuate. The liberation was no propaganda. It really occurred. The event even saved my grandmother's dad and no doubt whole lot of Filipinos. MacArthur was reluctant to leave Phils. but the Pacific theater needed a general.

The Allies rebuilt war-torn cities after the war. Including their enemies home-countries. Nothing wrong with that.

[lunafringe10]

@VPAgustin i agree, the philippines didnt really want the yanks to be back,

[emmthreejonny]

@lunafringe10 - When he left there was hardly any sense of abandonment because everyone understood it would be harder to win back the war in the Pacific without a general. There's also no such thing as Filipinos 'not wanting the Yanks back'. There were still plenty of Americans working for the resistance and communications with allied forces were never entirely cut. Everyone was expecting Americans to return to and this is why "I Shall Return" has such a positive tone for us Filipinos.

[lunafringe10]

@emmthreejonny do you really think the yanks wanted to help the filipinos? they wanted their influence and dictatorship over their colonies back, And that is what the Philippines were in effect, The phils were important as a base to roll up the the japs, As far as i understood, the phils even waged war against american occupation, There was resistance, America left the Phils in shambles, Look at the poverty there, a fake democracy. that is the US legacy in the philippines, 

[emmthreejonny]

@lunafringe10 - I don't understand the first parts of your sentence they are anachronistic.

However, this thing you call 'fake democracy' did not exist 30-40 years later after the Americans left, everything was steadily good and great after the independence, it was not in shambles. Now I don't have the "victim mindset", I don't believe our poverty was caused by no other country, but our own politicians and their wrong decisions.

[ikesuarez1]

Yes, the Filipinos fought the Fil-American War. But this was the Age of Imperialism in the 1890s. Nonetheless, Amercians were naive colonizers who imposed many of the reformist ideas in vogue during the Progressive Era in the US. The Philippines left the Philippines in shambles? Half-truth. When they left, the Philippines had the best public school system in Southeast Asia. I'm Filipino, dude.

[6digit]

Hollywood should make a movie about McArthur in the Philippines and Robert de Niro is my bet for that role!

[bonkersblock]

All hail the great general Mcarthur! all hail the victorious dead, all hail freedom!

[EasyCompanyAirborne]

What a hero. Medal of Honor stuff. He was the greatest soldier in WW2. They called him "American Caesar", but Caesar never won the Medal of Honor.

[ssaltmer]

@EasyCompanyAirborne These payments were known only to a few in Manila and Washington DC, including President Roosevelt and Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, until they were made public by historian Carol Petillo in 1979. The revelation tarnished MacArthur's reputation.

[ssaltmer]

@EasyCompanyAirborne On January 1, 1942 MacArthur was offered and accepted a payment of $500,000 ($7.4 million in current value) from President Quezon of the Philippines as payment for his pre-war service. Besides MacArthur, staff members of MacArthur also received payments: $75,000 to Sutherland, $45,000 to Richard Marshall, and $20,000 to Huff. Eisenhower, after being appointed Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force, was also offered money by Quezon, but refused the offer.

[sugba2sugbo]

He went to our university to recieve the HONORIS CAUSA AWARDS in USPF cebu city.....heheheheheh im so proud of our school

[emmthreejonny]

@sugba2sugbo - Didn't know that. I'm from Cebu too, and taking college in USPF.

[sugba2sugbo]

@emmthreejonny i cant believe it at first but the there were pictures with description at the university with the General in the school wearing academic toga but he was very old at that time when the picture was taken....i guess he was 70+

[spudoe]

See ya later. Wainwright you're in charge 'till I get back

[Labaron26]

The scene of MacArthur wading ashore in the Phillipines was rehearsed several times before it was actually filimed....He made a Hollywood production out of it.....

[CloudPhoenicia]

MacArthur held the rank of Field Marshal of the Phillipines -- the highest military rank that country had ever bestowed.

[mrsmelzbad]

My uncle saw him on a beach in the S. Pacific during ww2

[politician123456]

was this aired in the documentary in channel 13?

[emmthreejonny]

They show good documentary there but I took this one from a WWII database.

[cyklonb1989]

the background laughter is creepy. yeah~~hehhehheh~~

[emmthreejonny]

They weren't laughing.

[ajferet]

MacArthur was the most distinguished alumni of my hometown... God Bless Him...(even though I think ike was a better general)

[montoyr]

Ike had many moments of stupidity. He'd consistently take resources from Patton and give them to Montgomery for operations Monty couldn't hope to pull off and ended up costing many lives for nearly no return (Market Garden). Then Ike and President FDR let the Soviets have Berlin. MacArthur was smart enough to threaten the Soviets to not even touch Japanese soil.

[ajferet]

MacArthur was enough of a clumsy diplomat and all around jerk that Churchill would have demanded (and got his) recall or retirement. British public opinion was not as cavalier as Australian public opinion. It would have been a disaster, since Great Britain had only room enough for one Churchill-sized ego.

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Besides that, Monty WAS a hell of general and Market Garden was a good plan... but executed badly by Sir Frederick Browning. Patton, had he been SAC would have attempted to invade Sov.

[montoyr]

MacArthur was a clumsy diplomat? He was a soldier! Soldiers aren't supposed to be diplomats (at least not back then)! And you really think Monty was that great a commander? If you really look at his career, only El Alamein was his brightest moment, and even THAT battle wasn't won because of his plan. Close inspection would find that his plan began falling apart during the battle and other factors brought about victory. Monty also couldn't take Caen on D-Day, as Patton expected,

[ajferet]

Any officer above a Major-General must be a diplomat. No one without some diplomatic abilitiy could manage Monty and Patton and other prima donnas without failure. (Or Jackson, Longstreet, Davis or Uxbridge, Hill, etc etc)

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Field grade officers who don't tend to be diplomatic succesful come to bad ends (Bonaparte, Villenueve, etc) Even very great generals can fail because of a political tin ear.

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[montoyr]

That's not diplomacy, that's called management. CEO's do it all the time: managing everyone under them making sure people do their job, while dealing with bruised egos, differing opinions, and competency. That doesn't require diplomacy, it requires good management skills. And any good manager would have realized, after awhile, that Patton and Bradley could be better trusted with resources, than Monty, who took forever to get anything done. Even the Brits wondered about him at times.

[ajferet]

No other Allied General could have done what Ike did. Not Patton, not Montgomery, not O'Connor or Slim.

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Dealing with the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (especially Churchill) is the very definition of grand diplomacy. Marshall and Ike had it, no other American.

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Monty WAS slow, but he also was suburb at 3rd El-Alamien (of 5). Defensive generals can win too. (Montgomery, Foch, Wellington and Washington were all masters of set-piece battles

[montoyr]

Agreed: Ike was chosen precisely because FDR and Churchill knew he could maintain the military alliance between the U.S. and British forces. None could argue he did a superb job at that.  And I do agree that Overlord couldn't have been pulled off without him there. Also, Ike knew the Allies would need Patton in Europe and that's why he fought to make sure he wasn't dismissed. I'll give Ike that much. I still find that he made some poor strategic choices at times. El Alamein was all Monty had.

[gosciu555]

"MacArthur was enough of a clumsy diplomat and all around jerk "

WHAT? You have got to be kidding. MacArthur was an honest man that wouldn't take any shit and didn't like gangsters, I guess for you that means he's a "jerk." As for Monty, he was a DISASTER, complete incompetent. The stupid british mucked around in the Middle East instead of opening up a second front ASAP. In fact it was Churchills idea TO STALL the Normandy invasion so Germany and Russia bleed themselves to death.

[gosciu555]

FDR let the soviets have Berlin? I doubt it. Maybe Ike or some other person of that type (Anglo-phile who would be interested in dividing up germany) At that point it was too late to get the Soviets out of eastern europe, it would've caused another war.

[ajferet]

MacArthur designed his own uniforms, harassed every President of the United States from Hoover to Truman... used tanks on peaceful protesters on the Bonus Army in the 20s and was exiled in the Phillipines where he kept a series of mistresses, drew pay from both the United States and the Philippines (in gold!), and kept his Naval and Army Air Corps equvalents in the dark. Generally a jerk... but an outstanding general from time-to-time

[Commonsense11111]

@ajferet Extremely accurate. he was also a media hog

[UdAMnLaMeBoO]

@ajferet u made him sound like a communism

[elu296]

@ajferet Also the kind of man who could concievably have led a coup. He certainly had the public popularity to try. That was what Truman really hated about him; even more than his determination to turn Korea into WWIII.

[drum3433]

@elu296 This "American Caesar"'s actions in dealing with President Truman crossed the line that any Commissioned Officer in the Armed Forces of the United States should ever take. Insubordination would be a term that does not even begin to approach the severity of his breach of conduct.

[olexyd]

@ajferet

his campaign from Australia to the Phillipines to the doorstep of Japan was incredible. Patton lost way more men walking a mile than "Dugout Doug " did under far worse logistical circumstances.

[ajferet]

@olexyd I agree... outstanding General. A cynic would point that MacArthur also spectacularly screwed up in Korea, and although he did manage to resist General Homma, as the Field Marshal of the Philippines..., he was at least as a responsible for Clark Field as Admiral King was for Pearl Harbor...

[olexyd]

@ajferet

Patton also designed his own uniforms. Great general, as big a prima donna as MacArthur, but Patton got WAY more people killed in his campaigns.

[devilcruiser]

@olexyd Patton is a worst cold blooded commander, if were just left to command against Rommel in north africa campaign, without the support of the British and other Allied forces, US army is already doomed... Rommel is the best tactician in terms of both offensive and defense in desert warfare, Hitler just neglect him from its support leaving him a gun with no bullets in Africa.

[Bicolano18]

Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur is a beast!

[ajferet]

Additionally the only Republican Roosevelt was afraid of, politically, was MacArthur, who had been famous or infamous before the war

[gosciu555]

What? No, Macarthur was on FDR's side. I don't have the time to go into this, just listen to this

True Origins of the Attack on Pearl Harbor part 1

tarpley . net /speeches-and-lectures/

[ajferet]

I am not interested in conspiracy theories.

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Roosevelt may or may have liked MacArthur (I don't think they ever met in person)... but he was a political rival and was a Republican (which is where Ike got it from?)

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Just like 9/11 conspiracy nuts... nobody phony starts a war by destroying own fleet and 30% of your airpower. You do it with a Gulf of Tonkin resolution or a Sand Pebbles type incident. Throwing away a Destroyer or even Cruiser is a lot easier than Battleship Row

[DunlopDaytona]

Roosevelt met the great General several times, and both had a sincere respect and admiration for the other.

I recommend you read Reminiscences by General MacArthur himself, of American Ceasar by William Manchester for a more detailed history of the man and the world around him.

The world would be a much nicer, safer place IF MacArthur had got his way, and commie-sympathisers like Truman were stopped.

[ajferet]

@DunlopDaytona

I did get to Ike's and Monty's and Churchill's (as well as several minor figures)... I really enjoyed Manchester's "The Last Lion" about Winnie though.

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I don't think that President Truman was a communist sympathizer, but that there were figures in his administration (inherited from Roosevelt) that were stuck in a socialist mode.

[jhanmiguel]

fuck totoo ba yan its that true

[MysticRubyFaerie]

I wonder why is that so? There demeanor being much softer in expressive means than it is today..... Causes for some deep reflection....

Anywho when are you getting your a-s-s in the blue room?! lol!

[MysticRubyFaerie]

lol! I was just going to say it seems like Gen MacArthur needed to put more force and passion into his "I shall return" statement. I think you could teach him how to really say it with that last comment of yours haha!

[jayjay909845]

He returned and kicked japanese asses

[reyreygoodlooks]

Gen MacArthur has to return to the Philippines because he owns vast of lands in Mindanao and Visayas, he wants to recover his huge coconut, pineapple and sugar plantations...this is why he guaranteed the world that he'll return to the Philippines..this is the truth...only a few trusted people close to the General knew about this !!! Philippines to him is his second home !!!

[emmthreejonny]

Yes, and one of these "generals" happens to be you.

[reyreygoodlooks]

hahaha..not me my friend..my uncle is one of his trusted soldiers who fought side ny side with Gen Wainwright (this general should be honored in the Philippines)...Philippines should rewrite their history books and give more credit to Gen Wainwright !!!

[greenfarter]

that's a history lesson right there, just reading the comments between you two. ;) both of you have good points.

[reyreygoodlooks]

thanks

[cowboy19801004]

I Shall Return

[emmthreejonny]

The early 1940's - 1941 to 1943 as my grandmother tells me were relatively a peaceful time in central Philippines under the Japanese. Unlike what happened in Manila the Japanese here in Cebu were considered less aggressive with the locals. By 1944 near the end of the war when the Americans returned, the Japanese were getting anxious, famished, and like a wounded animal they were getting dangerous and started to kill civilians unsystematically. They began to raid homes and farms to get supplies.

[gB230003]

i shall return? tell that to the millions of filipinos you left behind punkass!

[emmthreejonny]

I am Filipino and I don't understand why you're mad. MacArthur was reluctant to leave the Philippines and struggled with his advisers that he would stay, but it was more decisive for a frontline general in the Pacific to take shelter in Australia instead, away from the onslaught of Imperial Japan but he did so hesistantly. This is why he made this speech on TV because he hated leaving so much he had to make his promise public.

As promised he returned and liberated our country saving more lives.

[logancody07]

You're quite right. In fact he had to be ordered off the the island of Corregidor personally by President Roosevelt.

[shimter]

but americans at that time had a mistake bombing, instead of bombing the japanesse they bomb the filipino having a death march and there is one hero who is from telegrafo, leyte(ive forgot the name) had a sign flag? to the americans that they had bombing the filipino one not the japanesse, during that time japanesse had help and protect the filipino. story is strange right? but thats true according of so many soldiers ive ask but they already died, may they rest in peace,

[reyreygoodlooks]

...this is true..that time those pilots were ordered to drop their bombs on any moving object they see below and that moving object could be people whether japs or pinoys they don't care..who asked for american assistance in the first place !?!

[emmthreejonny]

Moving targets? The Americans dropped bombs on key locations where the Japanese were keeping their supplies and made their bases like the University of San Carlos here in Cebu, I know people died not just the enemy, but that is war and weapons back then were not as precise, and even so, modern weapons have exhibited that it isnt so precise as well.

If it weren't that effective tactics Americans used, Cebu city could have been like Manila, and Manila could've been like Nanking in China.

[emmthreejonny]

You know there were as many Americans in the Death March too? The Imperial Japanese did not protect Filipinos, they were protecting their interests and with Filipino laborers they don't have to work themselves.

[reyreygoodlooks]

what key locations !?!...what effective tactics are you talkin about..?!.. that time they only rely on photos. no guided missiles and no computerized bombs and when you're up there the visibility drastically decreases..so whatever happens mission should be accomplished..open your eyes..if the americans didn't invade the philippines, manila could be as progressive as tokyo and cebu could have a robust economy as hongkong, the japanese by heart respect the value of human life..

[emmthreejonny]

Save your obvious anti-American rhetoric on someone elses channel. I do believe that the Japanese by all means like any other people respect and value human life. However, a heavily indoctrinated army such as the Imperial Japanese army, Nazi Germany, Stalin, Mao and Polpots communist forces wouldn't have any problems breaking humane bonds with their fellow man as history undeniably proves it. Stop making the evil good and the good evil.

[emmthreejonny]

Americans used aerial photographs like in Iwo Jima, Tarawa, some portions of Guadacanal. My grandmother like everyone during her time and place knew where the Japanese compounds were because she lived near them, and the Japanese made base on landmarks. When the Americans bombed them they did in fact destroyed University of San Carlos and the former PC station turned IJA base so succesfully that the Japanese retreated to the mountains of Cebu while US forces landed by sea.

[reyreygoodlooks]

My grandpa lost 1 of his eyesights when the GI's started their onslaught in Cebu,my dad was an ex seminarian of San Carlos Recoletos,i'm not antiamerican nor pro japanese in fact i'm married to an american. What i want to point out is WHY in the world US crossed oceans to meddle in the affairs of South East Asia.!? My grandma used to tell me that the japs are one of the peaceful loving people she has known. Innocent lives were lost when the americans came into the picture. Even up to now !!!

[emmthreejonny]

Fair enough. My grandmother recalling earlier in the war (1941-1943) that the Japanese stationed in Cebu were not as harsh as those stationed in Luzon and consider them not much of a threat unless they don't find out you're working for the resistance. Still, they wouldn't think twice of killing anyone if they find out, like what happened to her uncle.

[emmthreejonny]

Alot of people died in the Philippines even before Liberation. The invasion alone cost plenty of lives when IJA planes began bombing bases in Luzon. And during the Liberation the Japanese began their 'huwes de kutsilyo' in Cebu killing Filipino civilians as they decided that everyone is in cahoots with the guerilla movement. While in Luzon you have the Manila Massacre in which they bayonetted everyone inside hospitals, placed people on bunkers and burned them.

[reyreygoodlooks]

high percentage of all these gruesome killings mentioned happened in NLuzon bcoz guerillas are clustered in this area but go further south all the way to Mindanao & these japs were as meek as a lamb,they taught the pple of peronal hygiene,responsibility in our actions & most of all repect to the elders..do remember this when Japn occupied RP, Phil was the second progressive nation in the whole of Asia, when the Americans came we plunge down below & further below as the years progress. AMEN

[emmthreejonny]

My grandfather was in Surigao when the Japanese lined them up(villagers) and readied them to be machine gunned when guerillas cut off their communication wire and suspected the villagers for helping the guerillas, fortunately, sagdalistas told the Japanese that none of these people knew about it. His relative a Spanish meztiso who had blue eyes was beat-up because he resembled an American and the Japanese thought he was. Economic decline started in late 70's and especially after Ninoy's death.

[emmthreejonny]

The economic decline started long after the Americans had left and had nothing to do with our economic downfall. During the rampant corruption in Marcos time up to Ninoy's assasination foreign investment ceased interests in the Philippines. Projects to revive economic growth was a failure and caused civil unrest and further corruption within the government ending up with the Marcoses keeping large sums of money for themselves.

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[reyreygoodlooks]

US never left RP even after WW2, in fact they solidified their presence by rebuilding the 2 largest bases in ASIA(Subic & Clark).Economy shifted to a downturn when they started reaping our natural resources under a cover of capitalistic FilAm companies. Even before Marcos our economy, education & financial trade were all controlled by US.Even the Marcos era was all American since Marcos was a puppet icon of the US. I don't think you ever lived in RP.. coz you don't know what you're saying.

[emmthreejonny]

You are obviously a commie/leftist since it feels like I'm talking to a brick wall who happens to rewrite history by your replies, attacking foreign investments particularly American "capitalist" businesses by stating they drained us of our natural resources while in reality the Philippines is still enriched by it, only technologically poor to use these resources, albeit wisely and effectively.

[reyreygoodlooks]

you're misguided, worst of all you know nothing about the Philippines..my grandpa fought alongside w/the GI's during WW2, 2 uncles of mine perished during d korean war fighting d lefts, i have cousins their heads cut off by the communists in mindanao, my father spent his adult life as a soldier at Subic Naval Base & i have a dear friend who was shot by a sniper in the kuwaiti war & died a painful death..now tell me..BLOOD, SWEAT & TEARs offered..am i leaning w/ the left..?..

[emmthreejonny]

Then make their deaths worth something because to me you most certainly sound like a leftist, commie-liberal who attack people like your relatives.

[emmthreejonny]

I was actually born and had always lived in the Philippines. However, it seems to me you already have fallen to the rampant anti-US sentiments in the United States. Mind you, it isnt that hard to observe the crap thats been going on within that country.

[reyreygoodlooks]

This is the last that you'll be hearing from me, you have something but you have zero knowledge of what's reality in RP. Our precious natural resources like sugar, coconut, mining &.. etc, where do you think we're exporting them and what do we get in return.. !?!

[emmthreejonny]

Funny how one has something and still ends up with zero knowledge? Its not really hard to answer the moneytrail regarding our export products but if I'm to point a finger most Filipinos agree the money goes to the politicians and usually stays there. There's a current buzz here regarding the fertilizer scam. Look it up, its just a day in the life of sleazy Philippine politicians.

[ajferet]

I think that the bond between the United States and the Philippines has been a great boon to both of us. I say this especially here in Norfolk (General MacArthur was raised here) & he was one of my boyhood heroes...

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All of my life I have worked with and lived around Filipino immigrants. I have been richer for the experience and also have a permanent taste for their cuisine. I have actually wished to visit for sometime.

[cafelattefuture]

In Leyte they have a city named after him.

[acwl]

"What i want to point out is WHY in the world US crossed oceans to meddle in the affairs of South East Asia.!?" -- Because the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

[sokolova]

@acwl

because at that time phillippines was commonwealth of US