Title: What did the greatest American WW2 general have to say about the Jews and Germany? Source:
[None] URL Source:[None] Published:Oct 11, 2010 Author:General Patton Post Date:2010-10-11 13:54:25 by Itistoolate Keywords:None Views:639 Comments:38
Ike was an excellent PR man, a gladhander, a paper shuffler but never a field General.
Patton and MacArthur were thinkers, doers, tacticians, strategists, men of action.
When the battle of the Bulge broke out, Ike and Bradley were in London playing cards together, Montgomery was at home.
Patton was at the front lines organizing a relief effort before Ike was aware of the problem.
History is littered with such stories, like with Irish history we had Eamon DeValera sending Michael Collins to do the dirty work with the Anglo-Irish negotiations because he knew full well a full republic would not be attained. Collins ended up dead, while Dev became the longest serving PM in Irish history.