Yeah. There’s a reason why, out of a long tradition of American war criminals, he was for-real worried about getting arrested for his war crimes and didn’t leave the US all that much after a certain point because of it.

He was also just generally stupid and weak. The people at Harvard thought he must be qualified because the people in Washington respected him, and the people in Washington thought he must be qualified because the people at Harvard respected him. But he was generally just kind of a bumbler, if you couldn’t tell from that “reporters will hear you” line of argument.