No, I’m not talking about Helen Thomas.  Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tom Ricks, who blogs at ForeignPolicy.com, recently identified General Douglas MacArthur as the worst general in American history.  This is quite a charge, considering that Ricks offers only a half-hearted, incomplete argument.  I think that a man who served his country for more than half a century deserves more respect–or a coherent argument, at the very least.  The real kicker is that Benedict Arnold, according to Ricks, was a better general than MacArthur.  Now I’m not sure what his metrics were for evaluating these officers–maybe their strategic, operational, and tactical acumen, I don’t know.  Clearly, loyalty to one’s country was not a criterion.  To put a traitor like…