Fifty Years After MacArthur's "Duty, Honor, Country" Speech

Fifty Years After MacArthur's "Duty, Honor, Country" Speech

 

General Douglas MacArthur: Duty, Honor, and Country



General Douglas MacArthur's Address to Congress 1951: (Part 1)



Part 2



Part 3



Part 4



General Douglas MacArthur: Thayer Award Acceptance Speech (last nine minutes of his speech given to the cadets at West Point in 1962)



Douglas MacArthur Farewell Speech to Congress



I have linked up an article from the New American website entitled, "Fifty Years After MacArthur's "Duty, Honor, Country" speech which he gave to the cadets at West Point on May 12, 1962.  It's a great article speaking about the military career of the great general of World War II and part of the Korean War.  How America needs another General Douglas MacArthur today leading the military.  I believe General MacArthur would turn over in his grave if he were to see the direction the U.S. military has taken since the 1960's.  I remember hearing the words he echoed before Congress 60 years ago.  "There's no substitute for victory."  That adage still applies today.  Consequently, President Obama, former president George W. Bush, the current members in the Department of Defense and the State Department, along with past members of the Department of Defense need to take heed to what MacArthur said.  It's an absolute disagrace that America's troops are still in Afghanistan.  It shouldn't be that way.  The goal of the elected elite along with our military brass isn't about winning.  I don't know what all the motives are for America's troops being embroiled in the Middle East but I believe part of it revolves around the profit motive.  There's money involved in the waging of wars.  America has went the wrong way for years.  It's time we heed what General MacArthur said so many years ago.  I have posted some YouTube clips on the various speeches that General MacArthur gave before Congress and one segment at the West Point Academy in 1962.  I hope you enjoy them.