Frases de Curtis LeMay

Curtis Emerson LeMay fue un general de las Fuerzas Aéreas de los Estados Unidos .

✵ 15. noviembre 1906 – 1. octubre 1990
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Curtis LeMay: Frases en inglés

“There are no innocent civilians. It is their government and you are fighting a people, you are not trying to fight an armed force anymore. So it doesn't bother me so much to be killing the so-called innocent bystanders.”

Sherry, Michael (September 10, 1989). <i>The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon</i>, p. 287 (from "LeMay's interview with Sherry," interview "after the war," p. 408 n. 108). Yale University Press. ISBN-13: 978-0300044140.

“My solution to the problem would be to tell [the North Vietnamese Communists] frankly that they've got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the Stone Age. And we would shove them back into the Stone Age with Air power or Naval power—not with ground forces.”

Mission With LeMay: My Story (1965), p. 565. In an interview two years after the publication of this book, General LeMay said, "I never said we should bomb them back to the Stone Age. I said we had the capability to do it. I want to save lives on both sides"; reported in The Washington Post (October 4, 1968), p. A8. Many years later LeMay would claim that this was his ghost writer's overwriting.

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

Quoted by Richard Rhodes in Wikipedia: The Making of the Atomic Bomb

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

From his autobiography, also requoted in Rhodes, 'The Making of the Atomic Bomb', p. 596

“Actually, I think it's more immoral to use less force than necessary, than it is to use more.”

if you use less force, you kill off more of humanity in the long run, because you are merely protracting the struggle.
Mission with LeMay: My Story (1965), p. 382.

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