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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.

~Curtis Lemay

Topics: Bad Before Chinese Destruction Enough Grows Military Now Out Potential Reason Rule Schools Situation Some Than Thinking Today Worse

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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.

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Topics: Capability Chinese Delivery Future Hence Like Situation Sometime Then Time Too Will Years

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If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.

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Topics: Enough Fighting Stop Them You

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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.

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Topics: Aspects Bother Doing Every Good He Immoral Moral Soldier Something Thinks War You

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My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age.

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Topics: Age Aggression Bomb Communists Drawn Frankly Going Got Horns North Problem Solution Stone Stop Tell Them Vietnamese Would

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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.

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Topics: Been Bother Criminal Had Japanese Lost Me Much Suppose Time Tried Very War Would

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That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.

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Topics: Destroyed Doing Elbows Era Even Might Our Russia Skinned

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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.

~Curtis Lemay

Topics: Because Been Country Efficient Fed Hands Horror However Just Just Because Many Mention Most Nuclear Nuclear Weapons Opinion Propaganda Public Public Opinion Them Think Throughout Throw Times Up Use Weapons World Would You I Think

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We should bomb Vietnam back into the stone age.

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Topics: Age Back Bomb Should Stone Vietnam

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Soldier

Born: November 15th, 1906

Died: October 1st, 1990

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