If anyone only looks at certain parts of a persons career very different conclusions can be drawn. I am pretty sure that Harold Shipman was probably a decent doctor and may have even saved many lives. Can we not just say that, on balance, Haig was a good general but he dropped a few clangers before he got it right? Sadly those clangers cost a lot of people their lives and whether the lives he may have saved later makes that OK is a matter of opinion?