Yet another MacArthur poll

Douglas MacArthur - genius or braggart?

  • The greatest American soldier ever

    Votes: 6 7.3%
  • The greatest American soldier since Washington

    Votes: 4 4.9%
  • The greatest American soldier since Paul Revere (go look up the Penobscot Bay campaign)

    Votes: 2 2.4%
  • A mediocre man with a great PR machine

    Votes: 13 15.9%
  • A man with a great PR machine who only ever had one moment of brilliance (Inchon)

    Votes: 27 32.9%
  • A man with a giant ego and a need to keep feeding it (even that meant that his men suffered)

    Votes: 30 36.6%

  • Total voters
    82
Having recently reread Bill Slim's magnificent Defeat Into Victory I found myself getting enraged (yet again) at MacArthur's insistence that there would be no local surrenders by Japanese commanders until he had personally signed the peace documents in Tokyo Bay on the USS Missouri. So this made me think up this poll, so that we can gauge the board's feeling about Dugout Doug.
 
I wonder if anyone will click on the "MacArthur as the greatest American soldier ever" choice and if so what manner of terrible thing Calbear will chastise them with...
 

sharlin

Banned
A large man will come to your house and kick you in the balls.

Even if you're a girl this large man will find your balls and kick them.
 
Is there any good reading on why he's so terrible? I understand the no surrenders and it was his insistence that the emperor not be charged for war crimes and everything, but besides that I'm a little left in the dark.
 
WWII, a war of the egos.

It was Eisenhower who said that he studied theatrics under MacArthur. And Churchill who, after receiving a complaint that Mountbatten was intruding on MacArthur's sphere of interest, went to a map and noted that the two men were 6600 miles apart...adding that he would have thought the distance was sufficient...:D
 
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