RE: Does the prospect of nuclear disaster still frighten anyone these days?
March 21, 2015 at 7:39 pm
(This post was last modified: March 21, 2015 at 7:48 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(March 21, 2015 at 6:49 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote:(March 21, 2015 at 6:41 pm)abaris Wrote: I left LeMay out for two reasons. One, I didn't know how he's spelled and couldn't be arsed to look that up. Two, he was some bullheaded not to educated soldier type and I cut him some slack for being an idiot. His horizon never rose over bomb, bomb, bomb.
His job was to kill people and break things. He was efficient.
Amazing how he could have hanged for this if he did his job for the other side.
(March 21, 2015 at 6:23 pm)JuliaL Wrote: Is that sort of thinking unknown today?
Absolutely not.
(March 21, 2015 at 6:23 pm)JuliaL Wrote: I have to believe there was something intrinsically different in the "greatest" generation. I wish I knew what it was.
The photoshopped cepiatone picture that gave that generation a golden glow was careful to airbrush out many of the less creditable thoughts and motivations of influential members that generation. It's almost as if we like to be as faithful to history as official soviet historic photographs were faith to the membership list of the politburo before the Stalin purge.
