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Can you find a definitive link? I find this ... "MacArthur articulated his most famous dictum—“never get involved in a land war in Asia”—after the Japanese su

Can you find a definitive link? I find this ... "MacArthur articulated his most famous dictum—“never get involved in a land war in Asia”—after the Japanese surrender, because he believed that Japan’s simultaneous war in China made his Philippines victory possible. Japan had annexed Manchuria in 1931, then invaded China in 1937" [ http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/rethinking-douglas-macarthur-106397_Page2.html http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/rethinking-do...] We acheived our goals of stopping the Communists from conquering a friendly nation; so it's a victory.

ojbyrne 11y ago
No, we intervened in a civil war between two groups, one that we decided was more in our interests to support. And we opened 2 markets for arms to be sold to, that would be healthy vibrant markets (for arms) for the next seventy years.