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Originally Posted by Air&Road
 Yeah, that's the way I look at it. If we had lost, I assume he was talking about Enola Gay's mission would have made him a war criminal. Of course the firebombing of Japan probably was worse and he gave the order for those missions and much more.
Chuck Yeager said in his book, that during a portion of the war, each fighter pilot was assigned a sector and told to strafe anything that moved in that sector. He said that he and several of his buddies said to each other privately something like: "if we're going to do this kind of stuff, we darn sure better win the war." War is hell and there's nothing fair about it.
Whether it was WWII or SAC, I think LeMay was plenty hard nosed enough to be of use today. Problem is, the General of the Air Force follows commands from the Commander in Chief. The one we have now, doesn't have the balls to turn him loose. |
Pish. It takes just as much courage to hold back when aroused to be sure of doing the right thing.
I read in the paper this morning that it is the marines job to protect the embassy personell. All non guard personell had been evacuated I believe. What good is it to kill a couple of hundred wall scaling flag stealing demonstrators when there are thousands more to keep coming until the embassy was overrun and our marines killed?
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