I believe old Curtis said “...bomb them back to the stone age....” I believe he was talking about the North Vietnamese at that time....but I would think he meant just about any of our enemies during his service...
well for one thing, Mecca would be a burnt cinder in the desert...https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Curtis_LeMay
“I’ll tell you what war is about, you’ve got to kill people, and when you’ve killed enough they stop fighting.”
The General was a no nonsense commander and was also in the ETO flying a B17 named red gremlin.He practiced what he preached.
I recall hearing a story of General LeMay at a Senate hearing when asked why, with already enough nuclear weapons to reduce the Soviet Union to cinders, he still wanted more nuclear weapons, LeMay replied, “I want to see the cinders dance.”
Bomb’em back into their caves; then NAPALM the cave entries and exits.
If the jellied gas don’t get’em the depleted oxygen will.