Douglas MacArthur Quotes
One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
MacArthur, Douglas. Testimony before the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees. 3 May 1951, Washington, D.C. Military Situation in the Far East, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1951, p. 44.
Bland was an expert in Asia and spent most of his time writing about Asian Politics. This quote shows that there was hostility and bad feeling between American and Japan long before WWII. This statement was written in 1921. The reality was that Japan was getting stronger as a militaristic expansionist nation which wanted to subjugate most of Asia. Ironically, they were using England and the European powers as models and sought to take Korea, Manchuria and much of Asia as Colonies, but this clashed with American values and even then there was animosity of the two systems.
Like many Americans who thought it bad policy to go to war in Iraq in the early 21st century and then became ardent military supporters to win the war rather than lose, Scott maintained that victory in WWI was crucial even though he had opposed entry into the war.
The line was delivered by Dustin Hoffman.
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur was an American five-star general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Philippines campaign, which made him and his father Arthur MacArthur Jr. the first father and son to be awarded the medal. He was one of only five to rise to the rank of General of the Army in the U.S. Army, and the only one conferred the rank of field marshal in the Philippine Army.
