Tell me more about Curtis LeMay. What do you mean by that?
Read Victor Davis Hanson's books.
LeMay was the man behind the US’s saturation bombing of Japan with Napalm and other incendiaries in WWII. He was a “total war” General who knew that the Japanese or Germans would never surrender until UTTERLY DESTROYED. This meant shortening the war and ultimately saving millions of lives.
There was no sympathy, no touchy-feely, I share your pain sentiment in that war by that generation.
Today we face another global threat yet we are mostly the “latte generation”, incapable of imagining evil atrocities being committed in the name of some Prophet.
We are unprepared and ill-equipped to deal with Islam. Note I did not say “radical” Islam. My point was that at some point in the not too distant future we will have to confront these bastards just as we did very late into WWII.
Ours is s generation unprepared and soft and the enemy knows this. This is why he kills and taunts us at the same time.
The real game changer here is what Israel has been warning us about for decades - Iran. We still think appeasement will work when we know it won't. At some point we are going to have to find the right leadership to combat this onslaught.
Obama told the Israelis and other lesser allies that “all options are on the table” and we all know that is a lot of baloney.
LeMay was in the right place at the right time for the right reasons. We will have to find our Rooselvelt, Churchill, Patton and LeMay soon or we will be headless corpses.
We still don't get it, not even after 9/11 but we will be getting it soon enough.
Curtis Lemay was the architect of the bombing campaign against Japan during World War II. The B-29’s were very successful in leveling Japanese cities which would be a “war crime” in our Rules of Engagement world.
Lemay commanded SAC in the 1950’s (the nuclear bomber force).
He was USAF Chief of Staff in the early 1960’s but left knowing that LBJ was about to not use air power to win the Vietnam War. Lemay agreed to be George Wallace’s running mate as a third party candidate in 1968.
Lemay was convinced an IRS audit on him during Nixon’s first term as President was meant to intimidate him from getting involved in politics.