He was a threat to world peace, a self promoting over-rated general who disobeyed orders, mislead the JCS and put his own vanity over the lives of GIs.
Nobody wanted the alternatives to Pusan; surrender or a fighting evacuation. "No substitute for Victory" equals an total undermining of Washington and his superior, the US president, right or wrong, thats what it was. A 50/50 shot??? He splits the 8th army in two and sends this road ...
The Kiwis did think it was funny :-D