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Originally Posted by Bigtime
Did LeMay ever say such a thing? I know that McNamara did (in that excellent documentary on him). I always thought LeMay was the crazy "bomb everything" kind of guy, in fact he was the inspiration for Brigadier General Jack Ripper in Dr. Strangelove.
I'm going to play devils advocate here. Didn't the Americans themselves help foster that sense of imperial ambition in the Japanese many years before? Teddy Roosevelt pretty much served them up Korea on a silver platter, in addition to motivating them to become more like the white western civilizations that were thought to be superior to all others.
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In that doc McNamara said that lemay told him once if they had lost the war they would have been prosecuted as war crimInals. McNamara then said he agreed and admitted they were acting as such. It really is an amazing documentary