drawscore wrote:
"Bomb them back to the Stone Age!" (Curtis LeMay)
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If Curtis Lemay had had his way, the Cuban Missile crisis would have led directly to WWIII. For that matter, WWII would have been extended to include a war pitting US/Allies against the Soviet Union after the defeat of Japan and Nazi Germany (just as General Patton had suggested).
Curtis LeMay may por may not have been a good wartime general, but we should be thankful he did not set foreign policy or most people alive then would have likely died and most people born since then would have never existed in the first place - or, if born anyway, would be living in a much worse world even than the one the US GOP and their tight-wing counterparts elsewhere have managed to help create.
Thankfully, the one Republican who was a former WWII general who *did* become President was a much more moderate and sensible man; Dwight D. Eisenhower. He had his flaws too, but nowhere near as many as a warhawk like LeMay.
Dare to be different... and make a difference.
To boldly go where no one in their right mind has gone before...