1. Fire McChrystal and Get Out of Afghanistan
(Opinions/Politic)

...sdom wrong, but Gen. Stanley McChrystal should be fired, even if it means losing the war. McChrystal, much like Gen. Douglas MacArthur during the Korean War, has publicly spoken out about decisions th...

2. Ridding the World of the Sickness of Pacifism
(Opinions/Society)

... In the triumphalism of the end of the Second World War, the American occupation of Japan, in the person of General Douglas MacArthur, played a major role in the creation of this constitution. But af...

3. 'Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order:' Part 2
(Opinions/Review)

...ing Walt Disney, Averell Harriman, Senator Thomas Dodd (Chris Dodd's father), Senator Henry (Scoop) Jackson, General Douglas MacArthur, House Speaker Sam Rayburn, Nelson Rockefeller, Eugene Rostow, Se...

4. How McNamara Lost World War II
(Opinions/op-ed)

...own next to him. I don't know what he thought I was doing. I don't know myself. In '45, on the battleship Missouri, Douglas MacArthur accepted the surrender of Imperial Japan. I never thought much of...

5. Culture of Secrecy Backfires Disastrously On U.S.
(Editor/Letters)

... by Congress of testimony whose disclosure could prevent the repetition of military blunders. By allowing Gen.  Douglas MacArthur to testify in secret, Velvel writes, the Congress failed to unmas...

6. Inside America's Germ Warfare City
(Opinions/Interview)

...influence" and "misplaced power" of the "military-industrial complex." Before that, General Douglas MacArthur declaimed: "Our country is now geared to an arms economy bre...

7. Notes From The American Lunatic Asylum
(Opinions/op-ed)

...complex to pump up spending on atomic bombs and their delivery systems.  Late in his life, the eloquent General Douglas MacArthur came to this realization: “Our government has kept us in a perpet...

8. Why Those Pearl Harbor 'Conspiracy' Theories Ain’t So
(Opinions/Daily)

...war with Japan. It’s interesting to me, by the way, that those who excoriate FDR for treason never denounce General Douglas MacArthur, the U.S. commander in the Philippines, who was told of the actua...

9. Vice presidential ventriloquists
(Opinions/Bulletin)

...Truman had no foreign policy experience but he was able to order the annihilation of two Japanese cities and prevent Douglas MacArthur from starting a nuclear war with China and Russia. The details of...

10. The Man Who Bombed Hiroshima
(Opinions/Society)

... as a general during that war believed the atom bomb was “completely unnecessary.” Admiral William D. Leahy, General Douglas MacArthur, and many other high officials at the time agreed. Japan wanted o...