Worst DefSec in history dies:

[jrittenhouse]

No, I’m talking about Robert McNamara, one of my particular historical nemeses, considering the number of important things that he messed up, destroyed or ruined. Not to mention the uncountable dead.

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[stickmaker]

Sometimes, it seems to me that every major thing which went wrong in the US in the Sixties can be traced back to that man.

[jrittenhouse]

There's an awful lot of baggage there.

[wcg]

Yeah. As I was driving in this morning and heard the news, I have to confess my first thought wasn't charitable. To his credit, he did eventually realize he'd made terrible errors, and sought to prevent others from making the same mistakes. But still, he was the architect of the worst American military fsck-up ever.

(Pity I don't have an icon of the patch I used to wear. It read, "Southeast Asian Wargames 1964-1975, US Team, 2nd Place." It would be appropriate for this.)

[johnridley]

Use google image search. There are several images of such patches, though I don't know if they're the ones you remember.

[supergee]

Donald Rumsfeld saw what McNamara did, and decided he could do it better.

[polyfrog]

"I would never wish anyone harm, but there are a number of obituaries which I shall read with great relish."

Pardon me a moment while I relish this.

A lot.

[jcw_da_dmg]

At least he apologized. I can't see Kissinger or Rumsfeld ever doing that.