Originally Posted by HushMoney

Quote from General Curtis LeMay after he fire bombed the shit out of most Japanese cities:

LeMay said, "If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals." And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals. 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?


From the documentary "Fog of War"