"Look at the incentives and I will show you the outcome" It's easy to make LeMay look more evil than he was. Once you've got the villain you need a hero if yo

"Look at the incentives and I will show you the outcome" It's easy to make LeMay look more evil than he was. Once you've got the villain you need a hero if you want to tell a good story. We're talking an author someone who does a layman level history podcast here. You can't expect him to fight over facts like a lawyer. That's just not what you do when you produce that kind of content. He's gonna find a bunch of facts, point the ones he likes in the direction of the point he wants to make and then turn them loose. And if the result is a good story he's gonna sell a whole bunch of books to the kinds of people who listen to his podcast. It's a shame that making a mess out of history is a good business model but the fact of the matter is that it is.