I'd like to see a more aggressive attitude on the part of the United States. That doesn't mean launching an immediate preventive war.

I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them.

We're at war with Japan. We were attacked by Japan. Do you want to kill Japanese, or would you rather have Americans killed?

Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.

Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars

If you are going to use military force, then you ought to use overwhelming military force. Use too much and deliberately use too much you'll save lives, not only your own, but the enemy's too.

If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.

Sometime in the future - 25, 50, 75 years hence - what will the situation be like then? By that time the Chinese will have the capability of delivery too.