Reply #28: LeMay didn't start the cold war [View All]

It had already been started before he ever enlisted in the Army. Read "Animal Farm" for the quick version. Between the British and the Germans and the United States, they never trusted us again. Throw Stalin into the mix, and you end up with the Soviet Union as we know it, not the Soviet Union as Lenin dreamed it. http://www.naval-history.net/WW1CampaignsRussianRev.htm

It's not black and white. And yes, there is a difference between "our" war criminals and "their" war criminals. Not only do victors write the history, but they started the war. We didn't ask for it. Brutality is what happens in war. IMO, the only morality attributable is in who caused the war, not in what was done. But I speak from a cynical, pragmatic paradigm.