Douglas MacArthur - Address to Congress (1951) Part 2 of 4

Douglas General MacArthur
Address to the Joint Meeting of the U. S. Congress
April 19, 1951
Washington D. C.

Part 2 of 4 (Link to Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ3GLrRpKMY )

Total Length approximately 36 minutes. Divided into four parts, each about 9 minutes.

General Douglas MacArthur, former commander of Allied forces, first in World War II and then in Korea, gives his farewell address before the joint meeting of Congress on April 19, 1951. President Truman relieved MacArthur of his command over differences in opinion on strategy in Korea. In a final Address to Congress, MacArthur defends his conduct of the Korean War. "Old Soldiers never die," he famously says, "they just fade away."

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[Unilateralism]

@Shiro00ms I live by the general belief that if a man works for something he deserves to receive just payment for it, and if I'm not willing to provide just payment, then I have no reason to receive his work. And that movie is far from accurate, and that is not at all what happened. The Japanese proposed the construction of an Army with the agreement that it would help pay for and rely on the US Navy and Air Force for non-land action and transportation during negotiations. Truman denied them.

[Unilateralism]

@Shiro00ms I'm honestly not going to buy a movie and watch it because you said so. I have, however, read MacArthur's biography, and there's honestly no real reason to deny the Japanese as long as we controlled their military. If you're talking about the Bataan Death March, then that obviously wouldn't happen if they were being commanded by us. There was no legitimate reason not to use the Japanese the fight the communists in the Korean and Vietnam Wars.

[Unilateralism]

We shouldn't have denied the Japanese a military. We should have let them reform a small military, trained it ourselves, and deployed it throughout Asia and the Pacific to combat communist advances.