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...irresolution that characterized Johnson and McNamara's military strategy raised the costs of the war for the American people, both at home and in the jungles of Vietnam...
...implication, McNamara's mea culpa further vindicates the thousands of students at Harvard and elsewhere who protested what they considered an immoral and losing effort. At the Institute of Politics last week, McNamara referred to his former domestic foes as "honorable Americans...
...McNamara's War," as it was known at the time, does not rest squarely upon his shoulders, although it was evident to the audience last week that real guilt lay behind each one of McNamara's pained confessions. The man who repeatedly and confidently predicted victory for his nation now bears the burden of history and the casualties of 58,000 American lives...
...should not hail Robert McNamara as a hero for denouncing the Vietnam War as a mistake. More than 58,000 Americans died there and they did not die for nothing. While the traitorous and cowardly peace protesters, McNamara's "honorable Americans," might have believed otherwise, America intervened to preserve the freedom and independence of South Vietnam and to stop Communist aggression--noble and just aims that we should not ignore. Further, North Vietnam received substantial support from the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, support that further justified American intervention...
...enough so that other Southeast Asian nations, such as Thailand and Malaysia, were able to strengthen themselves and thereby never succumb to communist aggression. The Vietnam War, though a defeat, helped stem the tide of Communism in Southeast Asia and therefore contributed to our victory in the Cold War. McNamara's mistake lay not in fighting the Vietnam War but rather in losing...