Deadly Accurate Insights from the Past

[Sandpiper]

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear -- kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor -- with the cry of grave national emergency ... Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

General Douglas MacArthur, 1957


“I believe that if we had and would keep our dirty, bloody, dollar soaked fingers out of the business of these nations so full of depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own. And if unfortunately their revolution must be of the violent type because the ‘haves’ refuse to share with the ‘have-nots’ by any peaceful method, at least what they get will be their own, and not the American style, which they don’t want, and above all don’t want crammed down their throats by Americans.”

— General David M. Shoup
former U.S. Marine Commandant
1966

[aden_nak]

1. <freeper> WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA? WHY? </freeper>

[Joy Anne]

2. MacArthur

Of course, MacArthur did his best throughout his overlong military career to create "grave national emergencies," from attacking the Bonus Boys to defying Truman.

But I do love the Shoup quote.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. Well, I am shocked!

Shoup was commandant when I was in the Marines. I never knew that he and I shared the same views. I got 30 days mess duty for expressing much the same thoughts about Vietnam when asked if I would extend my enlistment to go there and "liberate" the Vietnamese.

[bryant69]

4. That is a strange McCarther Quote

But both are, as you say, extrodinarily accurate.

Bryant
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