regent
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The wisdom of one of the most tyrannical, insubordinate, dictatorial generals of the Second World War -- notable, even among American generals, for both grandstanding and skedaddling out of harm's way -- all at the same time -- and getting away with it !!"For the framers of the constitution were the most liberal thinkers of all the ages and the charter they produced out of the liberal revolution of their time has never been and is not now surpassed in liberal thought."
General Douglas Mac Arthur
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The point being that MacArthur was a conservative maybe ultra, and for him to give liberals credit for the constitution is the mark of something. But I disagreed with MacArthur also, because the founders were of different political stripes, but they did use the liberal ideas from the Age of Enlightenment and Reason in the constitution.
At times MacArthur was a competent military man and other times his ego interfered. We needed heroes at the beginning of the war and he sorta qualified. One of FDR's mistakes may have been bringing him out of the Philippines. As for MacArthur skedaddling out of harm's way, I'm not so sure about that either.