"Would they sacrifice their best general . . . "

Rating: 9/10 (12 November 2014)

" . . . because he slapped a soldier?!" an incredulous Third Reich Field Marshal says in reference to PATTON, and America's then brand new Achilles Heel, Political Correctness. Actor George C. Scott, as Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., sniffs out Gen. Dwight Eisenhower's plot to cook up a decades-long post-WWII "Cold War" with Russia to benefit the Military-Industrialists eager to anoint him as President I-Like-Ike. From the establishment of the totally bogus "United Nations" to America's 8-war losing streak, PATTON strengthens your belief that most of our Troubles could have been avoided had not a Megalomaniacally jealous Eisenhower engineered PATTON's assassination-like demise. That a smirking Ike got away with this outrage gave Johnson, Nixon, and the Bushes--all present in Texas on 11-21-63--the blueprint they used to brazenly snuff JFK and facilitate 9-11. PATTON is portrayed as an idiot savant of War, lacking in key social and political survival skills as he prattles on about his various previous incarnations and poetry writing skills. On the other hand, Karl Malden embodies Gen. Omar Bradley as an Ike Toadie interested only in getting a tank named after himself. PATTON is forgotten today, because the back-stabbers get to write the history books. Make no mistake, while "VJ-Day" came thanks to nukes, PATTON won the war in Europe.