Carter Admits to Being Weak, Bowing to International Terrorism

[David Floyd]

DF, I suppose you think Kennedy should have nuked the USSR during the Cuban missile crisis?

No, at that point it was too late. I think we should have been rattling the nuclear saber when we had monopoly, to roll the Soviets back out of Eastern Europe following WW2.

He's talking out of his ass as usual. Yes, Americans, as part of the Allies, did believe that total war against the Axis was necessary as they felt the Axis presented a clear and present danger to their way of life. They even approved of the controversial "total war" doctrine developed by the belligerents of WW1 and that included bombing of enemy cities but if you look at old war time footage it is full of Allied civilians saying "Sure, I feel sorry for the ordinary Germans but they did the same to numerous countries and would keep doing it given the chance so we have to do the same". That's more of a "necessity" defense then "we hate them all and think they all should be exterminated" defense.

I was more referring to the Japanese. In 1942, if the US had a way to obliterate the Japanese Home Islands and every Japanese soldier and civilian, I guarantee we would have done it with massive popular support.