Robert McNamara in The Fog of War: “Was there a rule that said you shouldn’t burn to death a hundred thousand civilians in a night? LeMay said if we’d lost the war [World War II], 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?”

Gawker has an obit up on McNamara today that calls him “a narrow-minded number-crunching company man, exactly the sort of amoral little functionary we should never, ever allow to make decisions of life and death.”