The Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees, meeting in closed session, begin their hearings into the dismissal of Gen. Douglas MacArthur by President Harry S. Truman. The hearings served as a sounding board for MacArthur and his extremist views on how the Cold War should be fought.
General MacArthur served as commander of U.S. forces during the Korean War until 1951. In late 1950 he made a serious strategic blunder when he dismissed warnings that the People’s Republic of China would enter the conflict on the side of its communist ally, North Korea. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops smashed into the American lines in November 1950, driving the U.S. troops back with heavy losses. MacArthur, who had earlier complained about President Truman’s handling of the war, now went on an all-out public relations attack against the president and his Cold War policies.
In numerous public statements and interviews, General MacArthur criticized Truman’s timidity. He also asked for permission to carry out bombing attacks against China and to expand the war. President Truman flatly refused, believing that expanding the war would lead to a possible confrontation with the Soviet Union and World War III. On April 11, 1951, President Truman removed MacArthur from his command. Though Truman clearly did not appreciate MacArthur’s approach, the American public liked his tough stance on communism, and he returned home to a hero’s welcome.
On May 3, 1951, just a few days after MacArthur’s return to the United States, the Senate Armed Forces and Foreign Relations Committees began hearings into his dismissal. Partisan politics played a significant role in the hearings, which were instigated by Republican senators eager to discredit the Democratic administration of Harry Truman. MacArthur was the featured witness, and he spoke for more than six hours at the opening session of the hearings.
He condemned Truman’s Cold War foreign policy, arguing that if the president’s “inhibitions” about the war in Korea had been removed the conflict could have been “wound up” without a “very great additional complement of ground troops.” He went on to suggest that only through a strategy of complete military destruction of the communist empire could the U.S. hope to win the Cold War.
The hearings ended after seven weeks, with no definite conclusions reached about MacArthur’s dismissal. However, the general’s extremist stance and intemperate statements concerning the need for an expanded conflict against communism during the hearings soon eroded his popularity with the American public. MacArthur attempted to garner the Republican presidential nomination in 1952, but lost to the more moderate campaign of another famed military leader, Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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Truman was a backstabbing Zionist pwnd weasel and one of architects of the American socialist police state. Prolly had Patton killed to.
It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people [ Truman] are made Vice Presidents who were never intended, neither by Party nor by the Lord to be Presidents.” Gen. George S. Patton
“Don’t see how a country can produce such men as Robert E. Lee, John J. Pershing, Eisenhower and Bradley and at the same time produce Custers, Pattons and MacArthurs.” Harry S. Truman
More on the Zionist shitstain Truman.
Truman signed the National Security Act in 1947, which created the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
The CIA would go on to interfere in the internal politics of numerous foreign nations, organizing coups, assassinations, and regimes of torture for several decades.
Operation Ajax was a 1953 CIA coup that removed the elected Iranian Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, from power. The US installed a ruthless dictator whose oppressive rule led to the Iranian revolution 26 years later, and the current animosity between the US and Iran.
About 30 countries from 5 different continents were denied their democratic right to choose their own leaders. The CIA systematically destroyed democracy around the world, subjecting populations to oppressive dictatorships that were loyal to the US government.
As many as 6 million individuals died as a direct or indirect result of CIA interference and intervention. This is perhaps the main reason why America is hated so much around the world.
https://owlcation.com/social-sciences/Was-Harry-Truman-the-Worst-President-in-US-History
I think Rodney Dangerfield sums it up perfectly (along of course with the great Sam Kinison):
“The hearings served as a sounding board for MacArthur and his extremist views on how the Cold War should be fought.”
“Extremist” tells me all I need to know about the “objectivity” of History.com.