Oh, commander! What a terrible loss. Ike is not happy. And, quite frankly, neither am I. But we do appreciate the difficulty of this assignment. And we feel that, if you had that much trouble, other leaders probably wouldn't have fared much better.

Look, at any other point in time, we would probably reprimand you, but we still have a crisis on our hands so we will have to deal with this poor performance from you another time.

In any event, Patton's 3rd Army has dealt 5 Panzer Armee a crushing blow. Since you and your men are still on the scene, we need you to buck up so you can deal with the continuing threat in the Ardennes. Take heart, commander, help is on the way. You won't be fighting the next phase of this attack alone. We still have confidence in your abilities.