Originally Posted by
racedo
A war fighting leader who takes it to the enemy should never be allowed gain political office, their personality alone precludes them as lacking the compromise and deceit that is required in politics. That is fine as long as everybody recignise that we need dogs to fight dogs.
Eisenhower was as much a politician as a general, Patton was a general, MacArthur also a general................real difference here.
A bit selective perhaps?
Mountbatten? Churchill? Wellington even.
Even De Gaulle.