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Article: MacArthur lesson must not fade away.(Editorial)
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- The Boston Herald
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- April 15, 2003
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Byline: WAYNE WOODLIEF
With the hard task of reconstructing Iraq almost at hand, the Bush administration should study the way a legendary "old soldier" - the late Gen. Douglas MacArthur - transformed conquered Japan into a thriving democracy after World War II.
MacArthur, a hero general of the Allied victory over Japan, had been designated supreme commander for the Allied Powers, charged with rebuilding a bombed-out nation, dismantling its war machine, providing it with a constitution and improving the lot of its beleaguered citizens.
Which is much the mission President Bush has stated in broad terms. It now may proceed after yesterday's ...