Quote Originally Posted by BeardoMSU View Post
I suppose you're right here, given that just about every successful military commander was probably a giant SOB, ex. Patton, Teddy, Eisenhower, MacAuthur, Grant, et al.

To your other point about "who wins the war", there's a really good documentary from 2003 titled "The Fog of War", which focuses on Robert S. McNamara, and his service as Sec. of Defense. In the doc he talks about how if the US had ended up losing WWII we would've most likely been brought up on war crimes for our fire bombing of Japanese civilians, which we were doing in droves prior to dropping the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Dr. Grill was talking about this in his WWII classes at MSU back in the early 1990s. Said his first memory as a child was the firebombing of Dresden and his family running for their lives. He hated FDR, and did a whole day on US war crimes. That was an interesting class.