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"One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action."

Robert McNamara, American Public Servant

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"One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action."

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"Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme."

"Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him."

"We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?"

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