From: Adam Flinton 

Gene McAloon wrote:

>
>>>Bradley wasn't qualified either. At one point
>>>the threatened to resign his commission rather than possibly serve under
>>>Montgomery and said so publicly.
>>
>>That was mostly justr because they were bigots like you Gene. It also
>>lost the west the land between the final inner german border & berlin
>>(because the US simply could launch attacks from the Netherlands coz
>>heck that would mean coming under UK control). Sad to see such bigotry
>>harm so many lives.
>
>
> Wrong again, of course.

Nope. They were simply bigots like you. Invading from the Netherlands would
have got the US-UK forces to Berlin etc much faster but your idiots chose
to assault the siegfried line etc instead of going round it as the Germans
had done with the maginot line.

> The US's dislike of Montgomery was a direct result of
> their experience of him in the North African campaign,

What experience? You got your buts kicked at Kasserine & then it was
all over. Gee what a huge mount of experience

> which also explains the
> Brit general staff's opposition to giving him the D-Day command of Brit and
> Commonwealth troops. He got that command because Churchill insisted and that
> insistence was based on the Beaverbrook press having made Montgomery a
national
> hero. He simply couldn't be dropped after that.
>
>
>>>Marshall was never a consideration because he
>>>was Roosevelt's choice to run the whole war in both theaters. His talents
would
>>>have been wasted in confining himself to the European theater. The others
were
>>>excellent troop commanders, but had no particular talent for
doing the job
>>>Eisenhower had to shoulder.
>>>
>>>Eisenhower was the right man for the job of supreme commander in the
European
>>>theater. At that he did a suburb job.
>>
>>Hohum. He did the best he could. He was simply a pol with fatigues on.
>
>
> Precisely the point. Do try to pay attention here.
>

Hey no problem with that but he was just like Mark Clark & Patton &
the others who thought in vaguely Roman terms that a good campaign = a seat
in the senate or similar pol post after the war.


Adam

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