If You Kill Enough Of Them, They

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.

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

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.

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.