And McNamara and the rest of the plutocracy DID lose their wars---in 
Vietnam and to the Pathet Lao in Laos.  But neither the Viet Minh nor 
the Pathet Lao, Domino Theory canard notwithstanding, apparently had 
designs on Cleveland, Ohio. Unfortunately, there are no parallels to 
Nuremberg when nationalist movements in tiny third world countries kick 
the big dog away from their dish. 
Curtis LeMay provides historical continuity. He fire-bombed Tokyo and 
dozens of other cities in Japan and didn't miss a beat when it was time 
to carpet bomb "back into the stone age" Vietnam, Cambodia and the Plain 
of Jars. Thus LeMay helps strip World War II of some of its sentimental 
moral pretext. CP

Tim Romano wrote:

> McNamara said of the fire-bombing of many  (Cleveland-sized, 
> built-with-wood) Japanese cities that if the US had lost the war, he 
> and others would have been tried as war criminals.  I recommend Isao 
> Takahata's 1988 anime film, Grave of the Fireflies.
> Tim Romano
>
> Robert Kibler wrote:
>
>> Did you see that Macnamara documentary where is essentially admits 
>> that Vietnam was a mistake based on American ego and provincialism?
>>
>> The person of excellence understands what is moral. The petty person 
>> understands what is profitable.
>>                   "Analects" IV.16, Confucius
>>
>>  
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