We don't know how much of Patton's war record has been sanitized out of the history books. I know enough about him to know that he was as politically incorrect as they come, and wasn't squeamish about killing the enemy, nor of beating him down in any way imaginable. The man understood the concept of war better than anyone in our current pc-infested bureaucracy.
Did Patton have to deal with an enemy as debased and degraded as the Taliban? No, he didn't. The Nazis back in Berlin may have been monsters, but the guys he fought on the battlefield were soldiers just like him. If he'd had to fight the Taliban, he might have ordered his guys to do a whole lot worse than piss on their war dead.
Except for much of the Waffen SS.
Remember the Malmedy massacre.
If we’re going to pontificate on relative evils between foes, let us ask whether or not King George’s army considered our rag-tag gang of “terrorists” worse than the Taliban, and took a moment to piss on their corpses, too. I have a hard time believing the 40’s generation would be prone to cheer either way.