In a book I read by him he called Curtis LeMay a war criminal for his bombing campaign on Japan during WWII. I have no use for him.
In a book I read by him he called Curtis LeMay a war criminal for his bombing campaign on Japan during WWII. I have no use for him.
Curtis LeMay said he would have been considered a War Criminal if we had lost the war.
I like Victor Davis Hanson.
I read that book, and unless I am very wrong VDH was in full-throated support of LeMay, while pointing out that many others would call him a war criminal. If I’m wrong, I will freely admit it.
Actually it was a review that VDH wrote about a biography of Lemay
the direct quotation is:
“Did the mad bomber of Japan gleefully and without regret burn its cities to the ground, along with hundreds of thousands of civilians in them? LeMay, in fact, thought carefully about the strategy, approved leaflets warning of the conflagration to come, and, after the war, confessed that he would understandably have been tried as a war criminal if the U.S. had lost.”
I think you have developed a misunderstanding of VDH and hence are missing out on some most excellent pieces and analyses.
As for Imperial Japan, who really gives a damn. They deserved anything that could conceivably have been done to them. Including carpet bombing with incendiary bombs and atom bombs to boot.
Read it again brother.
What a completely ignorant comment - a commodity of increasing frequency at FR. Reread what you think you read.