There Are No Innocent Civilians, So It

My Solution To The Problem Would Be To Tell The North Vietnamese Communists Frankly That They've Got To Drawn In Their Horns And Stop Their Aggression Or We're Going To Bomb Them Into The Stone Age.

You [president Kennedy] Have Made Some Pretty Strong Statements About Their Being Defensive And That We Would Take Action Against Offensive Weapons. I Think That A Blockade And Political Talk Would Be Considered By A Lot Of Our Friends And Neutrals As Being A Pretty Weak Response To This [the Cuban Missile Crisis]. And I'm Sure A Lot Of Our Own Citizens Would Feel That Way Too. In Other Words, You're In A Pretty Bad Fix At The Present Time.

You've Got To Kill People, And When You've Killed Enough They Stop Fighting.

There Are No Innocent Civilians, So It Doesn't Bother Me So Much To Be Killing Innocent Bystanders.

Today, Shooting Wars Are Won Or Lost Before They Start. If They Are Fought At All, They Would Be Fought Principally To Confirm Which Side Had Won At The Outset.