For one thing, Patton didn't say we fought on the wrong side. He said there were TWO enemies, Hitler and Stalin, and he was right about that.
Yeah, I seem to recall a line where someone asked him if he had said that if he had the Reds on one side of him, and the Browns on the other, that he would attack in both directions. And he said, IIRC, no, but I sure as hell wish I had.
I was especially bothered by this: "Some people thought him mad, for wanting to fight the Russians (and for believing we should have been fighting them, rather than the Germans), but millions thought he was right. The notion that we were fighting the wrong guys echoes today among those who suggest our enemies are the Jews of Israel, rather than radical Islam."
Horse manure. The people who loved Uncle Joe Stalin and the people who pretended that Tet was a great defeat are all slobbering over Arafat and the Palestinian terrorists. The people who thought we were naive to give Eastern Europe to Stalin with a bow on it or to give China to Mao are not the antisemites of today.
You're right that some aren't, but some are, or at least are the successors to some of those guys.
The notion that we were fighting on the wrong side relates not to our support of Israel but to our war against Yugoslavia on behalf of drug-running Muslim Albanian thugs.
Whoa! Did part of your post jump over from a Wesley Clark thread? I know so little about that issue, that I'm sure as heck NOT going to open that can of Balkan worms.