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After earning an MBA from the Business School in 1966, Fenster worked for then-Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara before going on to head the financial restructuring group and the mergers and acquisitions group at Lehman Brothers...
...McNamara has finally gone public with lessons he learned from the Vietnam War: don't underestimate the forces of nationalism, and don't ask the military to achieve more than weapons can deliver. Could another lesson, which went unmentioned, be the danger of self-deception by leaders who choose to ignore the rational voices of the opposition? Now, 20 years later, after many lives were lost for a mistaken mission, "When will they ever learn?" Anthony T. Lee San Francisco...
...commend McNamara for finally discovering and admitting the truth. Right is not always (or ever) determined by might. The U.S. was following a path that suggested it alone could control the world. That wasn't true in the '60s and '70s, and it isn't true today...
...McNamara has only confirmed what those of my generation already knew. But even though the cause was unjust, that doesn't mean the soldiers who fought in Vietnam were unworthy. Some of those who returned are still fighting the legacy of that war every day. They deserve our help and respect...
...view of what McNamara said of his mistake regarding Vietnam, Jane Fonda deserves a medal and an apology...