"What Would Patton or Rommel Have Done?"
Patton and Rommel were cavalrymen, and the first rule of cavalry tactics is that you don't attack without infantry support.
They might have made raids behind enemy lines, but they wouldn't have let themselves get cut off and wiped out, which would have happened if Mac had bypassed Seoul.
"MacArther decided at the last-minute to forget the plan and try to defend the beaches. When he realized it was impossible to defend the beaches he scrambled back to Bataan"
Once again I find myself asking you to provide a source.
"Anyone even remotely acquianted with military science would have known that."
Anyone even remotely acquianted with military science would be acquainted with a specific detail of history?
Sorry, doesn't follow. To be effective, an insult needs to be at least logical.
Here is an example of many such sources on the internet:
"When the Japanese landed at Lingayen, MacArthur abandoned the beaches plan within two days. Some strategy! MacArthur also wouldn't invoke the Orange plan WPO-3 until December 24th after the Japanese had landed in force at 9 points. He lost 500,000 rounds of artillery ammunition, and 3,400,000 gallons of oil and gasoline plus food, clothing and medicines on the beaches. At the single depot at Cabanatuan, he left fifty million bushels of rice, enough to feed all the troops on Bataan for four years. Just 70 miles from Bataan quartermasters found 2000 cases of canned fish but were ordered directly and repeatedly by MacArthur's headquarters to abandon them or face court-martial. Besides not supplying Bataan, MacArthur went to extraordinary lengths to make sure no food was taken there. He deliberately starved his men."
http://www.geocities.com/pentagon/6315/bataan.html