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Ladies and gentlemen, get ready: R...RRRRRobert S. McNamara is back...
...been 30 years since he was last in the lime light as the primary architect for a war which would come to be informally named after him--"McNamara's War." But don't be afraid now. Although he is back to talk about the same thing, he is here--this time--to apoligize...
...McNamara didn't. In his own words, he "acted according to what we thought were the principles and traditions of this nation...
...politically flexible as they have always been, led the "Best and the Brightest" man to throw the nation into a decade of turmoil, destroying a whole generation physically and psychologically. Seeing the mistake snowballing into a tragedy, wise people cried out, protested, and ended up suffering the most. McNamara caused it all, then left office, took the helm of the Ford Motor Company and went to the World Bank, where he became an excellent leader again, and is now safe and sound, his hair still slicked back as 30 years ago. Hey, think about that song. "Only The Good...
...TURNS OUT, WE DO NOT reserve all our tears and rage these days for battles over the flat tax and tort reform. Sometimes matters of more tragic consequence command our passions. That was the case last week when Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense under Kennedy and Johnson, expressed shame over America's conduct of the Vietnam War. Suddenly, hot arguments over the justice of that war resumed as if interrupted only by a pause for breath, rather than the passage of decades...