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Originally Posted by sp00ln
Didn't MacArthur want to take over China?  |
Yeah, MacArthur wanted a full scale war with China, he figured "we're already all over here fighten 'em in Korea, might as well take out those Commie bastards". He got his ass fired over it too. Talk about a crotchety bastard.
His China fiasco aside MacArthur was a brilliant commander and was basically the ruler of Japan from '45 to '49 (IIRC) during the US occupation. I think he even wrote some of the Japanese Constitution, which is part of why Japan today is so western.