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 [b]we have failed in the liberation of Europe[/b]; we have lost the war!”

George S. Patton

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soar2newhighs

Ah, too bad it wasn’t all black and white. He probably was very correct in his feelings, but many of the personnel who’d fought in Europe may not have had the will nor the spirit to fight an ally who had just helped defeat Nazi Germany.
I personally look at Patton and another larger than life figure, Douglas Mac Arthur. Both were part of the rousting of WW1 vets from their encampment in Washington after that war. Those vets wanted what the government owed them.
Look at Mac Arthur and the Japanese military commander/ Doctor Ishi and the files and medical data obtained from
Camp 731 and possibly other Similar Japanese facilities. Given the horrific nature of what went on under Ishi, was his being let off the hook a wise decision which Mac Arthur was tied to?
Oh, my dad served in Patton’s 3rd Army in France, WW2.

jackjjackson · 61-69, M

MacAuthor’s egomania was perhaps only exceed by Brando’s in Apocalypse Now and LBJ’s. @soar2newhighs