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We could bomb Minnesota. A thermonuclear blast ought to raise your
temps
above freezing for awhile.



Nuclear NOYB. You must have shares in a bomb making company.


He's our own little Curtis LeMay...


"If you are going to use military force, then you ought to use
overwhelming military force. Use too much and deliberately use too
much.. you'll save lives, not only your own, but the enemy's
too." -Curtis LeMay

If LeMay's policies would have been implemented, then today there'd be a
unified Korea, we'd have won the Vietnam War, and Castro wouldn't have
survived the Cuban missile crisis. Of course, the World probably would
have ended sometime in the 70's when he launched an all-out pre-emptive
strike against the Soviets...but nobody's perfect.







LeMay would have inititated a nuclear war...


Isn't that what I just said?

Regardless, his strategy for blasting Japanese cities into oblivion is
what won the war for us.



The war against the Japanese was won before we dropped the nukes.

Of course it was...because before the nukes were dropped, the LeMay-led
Strategic Air Offensive was dropping napalm on Tokyo and other Japanese
cities. There were estimates at the time that a ground assault on the
Japanese home islands would have led to 1 million US casualties. If we had
to fight WWII again today, we'd sacrifice those million men rather than
make the difficult decision to target civilian cities form the air (ex--
Fallujah). We don't have the stomach to do the things necessary to win a
war today.