If Americans are at the point of wanting a Patton-like president, things have gotten worse than I realized.  Patton was loved by his own troops . . . not by anybody else in the U.S. Army or the Allied High Command.  He regularly disobeyed orders and stirred muddy political waters.  After his death the myth was gradually constructed of a military genius who put principle before politics.  In fact, he was the epitome of an effective field officer who would be completely useless without his steadier, savvier commander-in-chief.  He was, in addition, an old warrior who couldn't accept that the war was over.