For the same reason. Despite Reagans chief strategist ADMITTING IT OUTRIGHT (when he thought none but the faithful could hear,) Republicans get all huffy when people point out racism is the SOLE reason they hold the Solid South as solidly as Dems ONCE did. How can Republicans CURRENTLY guilty of a crime excuse themselves yet excoriate Dems who REPENTED it? Democrats turned from evil to good; Republican turned from good to evil: Which is the greater sin?

None of which changes MacArthurs megalomaniacal certainty he needed no reinforcement to defeat Japan, just as he sorely underestimated the second wave of communist attacks in Korea. He should thank heaven the US Navy was there to bail him out on three occasions in just two wars. Swap MacArthur for Patton and the Pacific War ends two years earlier--and a darned good thing, because the US never advances past its North African beachhead in the European Theater. MacArthur was right for the wrong reasons in Korea; he still needed the Navy before he was even CAPABLE of fighting, despite the Japanese command where he had replaced the emperor with himself. Too bad for him Truman had read the Gallic Wars, too, and knew America did not need a general installing himself as emperor of Japan, then the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, and finally leading a battle-hardened hero-worshipping army home to crush US democracy with dictatorship.