Reply #14: elevating the man who used an atom bomb in anger [View All]

You can't say what message was sent out by elevating the man who commanded the dropping
of the atom bombs, for the firebombing of japan. By lifting him up to command SAC, it sent
terrorist signals around the world, a wave of reasonable fear perhaps could have been avoided
by elevating a less divisive character.

Here's the official story as they tell it, but the atmosphere of history must reflect on
how his elevation is behind perhaps decades of nuclear fear across the world... and for that
he, teller, and the load of them who elevated nuclear war as a possibility, they might be
in future called the war criminals of the 20th along with the others... 'good' war criminals,
'our' war criminals, and therefore forgiven and absolved.

http://www.strategic-air-command.com/people/LeMay-General-Curtis.htm

Imagine if Russia had used an atomic weapon in anger on berlin, and then
another on frankfurt, and then elevated the general who did that to head of their
strategic arms command, would you be afraid of that society? What if they elevated
another general who had not the track record? Would that be interpreted differently.

Operation home run involved flying bomber wings over russia to scare them. Who started
and maintained the cold war?
http://www.55srwa.org/memory_lane/06-09111553mln.html

we did. Russia was only a threat as much as we scared the bejeszus out of them.
Sadly curtis le may was an actor in it all, but a willing one.