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Originally Posted by sperry
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.
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Umm... he WROTE the Japanese Constitution - the entire thing I believe. It has yet to be ammended; but I dont credit that on his brilliance, I credit that to the culture. Yeah, he and one other guy are the only two reasons why Japan is doing so well today. The other guy, I forgot his name (I need to retain more at school) brought over the fundamentals of Supply Chain Management. From there, Japan developed new ways of going about business. Toyota, for example, developed the Just In Time method to run a business. But yeah, MacArthur was a great man.