"I take it you do not like the best American General of all time. I also take it that you do not know that he stared down Messershmidts and charging horsemen with those Colts."
I mean to disrespect to Patton. My somewhat asinine comment was purely in response to your asinine comment.
"Who are your favorite generals? The Russian ones that sent their men to combat with 2 bullets and a gun pointed at their backs?
Are you quoting from a Hollywood graphic fantasy "Enemy at the gates"? LOL. Actually, much of what I was going to say to you has already been said in response to you by instantgratification. If you care to know what my favorite general on the Soviet side is, its Zhukov. Both for his ability to use the resources he had and for guts he had to verbally challenge Stalin on several occasions. He also, as instantgratification pointed out, commanded genuine love and respect from his troops. In fact, his popularity and image were a major reason he was forced into an informal exile during later Stalin years, basically confined to his home.
Or the Russian generals that sent their own soldiers to the Gulag after WWII because they saw how prosperous Europe was."