Curtis Lemay's Anecdote

Curtis Lemay is an interesting dichotomy because on one hand, he's portrayed as this savage kind of person that would target enemy cities and enemy populations during the Cold War without even blinking. And yet when you read a lot of the stuff about him, including his own words, he comes off like his own version of a duet or a bomber mafia where he's suggesting that half measures in war end up prolonging the conflict. He thought it was all about duration. That morality was duration. Now is that true? I don't know.