Comments by "Pyromania101" (@pyromania1018) on "America's General - George Patton Biography" video.

  1. Patton was an idealist, and a bit of an idiot; luckily, Germany was being led by another idealistic dumbass who also had the disadvantages of being a coked up hypochondriac. Had he lived, Patton would have stood in the way of progress in developing the understanding of mental illness in the armed forces because he was too fanatical to accept that they exist. We now know that combat fatigue is a real thing, and he was probably suffering from it himself when he slapped that soldier--but was in denial about it. In all likelihood, he probably would have had a mental breakdown once reality smacked him in the face, comparable to Hitler's breakdown on 22 April 1945 (you know the one), and he would have slumped into depression. World War II was the right time to have men like him in high positions, but nowadays, a man like that should never be given power of any kind, as his refusal to separate fantasy from reality would only lead to failure and unnecessary deaths.
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  2.  @vksasdgaming9472  Nah. Even when you don't think you have it, that tends to make it worse. It can make you delusional: the soldier he slapped was actually hospitalized for malaria, not combat fatigue, but because Patton was suffering from it AND in denial about it, he only saw what he wanted to see and took his denial out on an innocent bystander. After he calmed down, he summoned the private to his office and sincerely apologized for slapping him.
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