I like Patton, kinda hot headed but I'd have followed him. I have several of the best Bio's and a framed print of him in my office. As for P4, we need him in the army. He will be in Centcom for 2 more years and then I expect him to serve atleast as Army COS and hopefully as our head of the Joint Chiefs. Thats about 4 years of work. He could be ready in 2012. He's extremely smart, even tempered and could do a good job. I'm not sure if he would want to do it.
Ha ha. i have a bust statue in my waiting room of Patton as well as of framed picture of him at Battle of the Bulge.
Was he flawed? Immensely. But that is what made him even more amazing as a person.
I always tell people the story about he went to the Mexican border and shot two of Pancho Villa's men and then tied them to the hood of his car and drive them back to Black Jack Pershing as a trophy.
People dont believe me when I tell them that story.
As Michael Savage says - "we need more Patton, and less Patent leather."