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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Well, if Curtis LemAy had anything to say about it.
Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.... Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier.
...Native annalists may look sadly back from the future on that period when we had the atomic bomb and the Russians didn't. Or when the Russians had aquired (through connivance and treachery of Westerns with warped minds) the atomic bomb - and yet still didn't have any stockpile of the weapons. That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.
China has The Bomb. [...] Sometime in the future--25, 50, 75 years hence--what will the situation be like then? By that time the Chinese will have the capability of delivery too. That's the reason some schools of thinking don't rule out a destruction of the Chinese military potential before the situation grows worse than it is today. It's bad enough now.
If I see that the Russians are amassing their planes for an attack, I'm going to knock the #### out of them before they take off the ground.
I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them.
I don't mind being called tough, because in this racket it's tough guys who lead the survivors.
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Cap, I love your arguments and knowledge of politics and war, but when has the "strike first, ask questions later" approach ever worked for the Americans? Both Vietnam and Iraq were of this nature, and the ideological objectives were never really solved in this manner.