Should we have listened to Patton?

“I understand the situation. Their (the Soviet) supply system is inadequate to maintain them in a serious action such as I could put to them. They have chickens in the coop and cattle on the hoof — that’s their supply system. They could probably maintain themselves in the type of fighting I could give them for five days. After that it would make no difference how many million men they have, and if you wanted Moscow I could give it to you. They lived on the land coming down. There is insufficient left for them to maintain themselves going back. Let’s not give them time to build up their supplies. If we do, then . . . we have had a victory over the Germans and disarmed them, but we have failed in the liberation of Europe; we have lost the war!”

George S. Patton

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basilfawlty89 · 36-40, M

Patton was also a virulent Antisemite.

irishmolly72 · 56-60, F

@basilfawlty89 Is it bad if an anti-semite saves 50+ million lives by defeating Communism in 1945? Between Stalin and Mao that is a very conservative estimate. Who is your selection for a military leader who has never done anything wrong?

basilfawlty89 · 36-40, M

@irishmolly72 doesn't change that he treated displaced Jewish like crap, had former Nazi officers overseeing them called them lower than animals.

I'm sorry, but I don't excuse antisemitism.

I could name you General Andranik Ozanian whose people were facing a genocide and he fought against the Ottomans and didn't harm innocent Turks and Kurds.

irishmolly72 · 56-60, F

@basilfawlty89 Why focus on Jews when almost 100 million civilians died at the hands of communism? Were those 100 million somehow less important? That was the initial topic of this discussion.