Patton would disagree with that statement.
True. However, in this regard he was an idiot. As FDR, Truman, Eisenhower and everybody else in power fully realized.
His idea was to make a separate peace with the Germans, then ally with them to fight the Russians.
While this might in theory have been a wise military/political strategy, it utterly ignores the way America works. Here we are just winding up a major war, looking to go home, and the president pitches us into an even larger war with no end in sight, against a former ally.
This might have been a viable strategy for Louis XIV or Frederick the Great. Had FDR or Truman tried it, the only result would have been Congress cutting off funds, or possibly a successful impeachement and removal from office.
And that isn’t even recognizing its effect on the American military itself. Our Army wasn’t then, and isn’t now, simply a robotic force the president can deploy exactly as he chooses. How do you think American soldiers in western Germany would have reacted to being told they now were faced with fighting USSR? Which had turned out so very well for Germany.