We forget that politics does not choose the best military fighter.

I am reminded that the Republicans dumped General MacArthur for Eisenhower. Eisenhower was a great leader but was nowhere McArthur's equal in military strategy. 

Like Julius Caesar, MacArthur was hated by the military because they didn't like his military genius. It made them look bad. Bad politician.

For example with little military force he proceeded from Australia, hopped from Island to island in the Western Pacific, and retook the Philippine Islands. 

In the Pacific the Navy had huge resources that MacArthur never had, while in Europe Eisenhower commanded huge resources to defeat the Germans in Europe and in North Africa. 

We can only guess that if MacArthur had the same resources in Europe that he had in the Pacific then he would have ended the war by surprise attack on Berlin and capturing Adolf Hitler. Very few civilians would have been killed and it would have ended very quickly with little fighting.