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We’re at war with Japan. We were attacked by Japan. Do you want to kill Japanese, or would you rather have Americans killed?

— Curtis LeMay Mission With LeMay: My Story (1965)

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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.

Apply whatever force it is necessary to employ, to stop things quickly. The main thing is stop it. The quicker you stop it, the more lives you save.

Mission With LeMay: My Story (1965)

I'll tell you what war is about, you've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough they stop fighting.

She [America] escaped the ruin visited upon other nations because she was given time to prepare and because of distance. [In the next war] distance will be academic [and no preparation time, too].

I'd like to see a more aggressive attitude on the part of the United States. That doesn't mean launching an immediate preventive war...

Mission With LeMay: My Story (1965)

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