"...in my research on American military history since the end of World War II, I have repeatedly encountered instances where the U.S. military contemplated the use of nuclear weapons in situations where the "enemy" not only lacked these weapons, but even lacked major air power... on 19 occasions after the U.S. bombing of Japan in 1945 and not counting the recent threat to Iran, the United States contemplated the use of nuclear weapons..."
"In December 1950, as Gen. Douglas MacArthur rolled toward the border between North Korea and China, he submitted a list of "retaliation targets" for which he desired 34 atomic weapons. In an interview published posthumously, MacArthur declared, "I would have dropped between 30 and 50 atomic bombs ... strung along the neck of Manchuria." This would have created "a belt of radioactive cobalt" from the Sea of Japan to the Yellow Sea. "For at least 60 years there could have been no land invasion of Korea from the North."
With thanks to Bill...
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Fortunately, in the US, the military is in the service of the civilian administration and not the other way around.
AntwortenLöschenLol. Do you really believe that?
AntwortenLöschenYes. Rather than it being the other way around (as it used to be in TR)
AntwortenLöschenFor example, GW Bush had fired several top level generals for resisting his occupation plans.
And Obama as well.
I yet have to see a General fire a US President.
"On April 11, 1951, MacArthur was removed from command by President Harry S. Truman. "
AntwortenLöschenWhat's about your own posts in the past about Corporate America (If I remember right)? And isn't the industrial military complex part of these corporates?
AntwortenLöschenIts true, the military is under civilian rule. Obama just fired MC Crystal.
AntwortenLöschenThere are a lot of people in this country who would change that.
AntwortenLöschenApparently, there actually WAS a plan to overthrow a US President and replace him by a General...
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The Business Plot (also the Plot Against FDR and the White House Putsch) was a supposed political conspiracy in 1933. Retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler claimed that wealthy businessmen were plotting to create a fascist veterans' organization and use it in a coup d’état to overthrow United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, with Butler as leader of that organization. In 1934 Butler testified to the McCormack-Dickstein Congressional committee on these claims.[1] In the opinion of the committee, these allegations were credible. One of the purported plotters, Gerald MacGuire, vehemently denied any such plot. In their report, the Congressional committee stated that it was able to confirm Butler's statements other than the proposal from MacGuire which it considered more or less confirmed by MacGuire's European reports.[2] No one was prosecuted.
While historians have questioned whether or not a coup was actually close to execution, most agree that some sort of "wild scheme" was contemplated and discussed.[3][4][5][6][7] Contemporaneous media initially dismissed the plot, with a New York Times editorial characterizing it as a "gigantic hoax".[8] When the committee's final report was released, the Times said the committee "purported to report that a two-month investigation had convinced it that General Butler's story of a Fascist march on Washington was alarmingly true" and "It also alleged that definite proof had been found that the much publicized Fascist march on Washington, which was to have been led by Major. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, retired, according to testimony at a hearing, was actually contemplated".[9]
I think Smedley Butler should get a medal for what he did. However, they swept it under the rug because they were scared of others thinking along the same lines as the businessmen who perpetrated this. The list of corporations that were part of this plot reads like a whos who of corporate America today. Henry Ford was well known for his Fascist sympathies and was probably one of the leaders of the plot. IBM, Standard Oil and the like were among the corporations implicated in this plot.
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