If We Maintain Our Faith In God,

If You Kill Enough Of Them, They Stop Fighting.

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.

I Suppose If I Had Lost The War, I Would Have Been Tried As A War Criminal.... Every Soldier Thinks Something Of The Moral Aspects Of What He Is Doing. But All War Is Immoral And If You Let That Bother You, You're Not A Good Soldier.

My Solution To The Problem Would Be To Tell [the North Vietnamese Communists] Frankly That They've Got To Draw In Their Horns And Stop Their Aggression Or We're Going To Bomb Them Into The Stone Age. And We Would Shove Them Back Into The Stone Age With Air Power Or Naval Power - Not With Ground Forces.

We're At War With Japan. We Were Attacked By Japan. Do You Want To Kill Japanese, Or Would You Rather Have Americans Killed?