Just after I had posted about Vietnam...
...Paul Greenberg posts a splendid article on the man who ran it: http://townhall.com/columnists/PaulGreenberg/2009/07/09/robert_strange_mcnamara,_a_man_for_the_soulless_age?page=full&comments=true#comments . I have long said that Greenberg is one of the best conservative writers around, both humane and capable of very fine prose, and this article confirms it once again.