McNamara's Band

[percyprune]

Robert S. McNamara is Hovis.

McNamara was a figure who became very familiar to me in my researches for Downtown. He was an odd fellow. One of the brightest men of his generation who will probably be ranked as one of the worst American SecDefs. A son-of-a-bitch who devised a particularly industrial method of waging war, against the NLF in South

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[tinkll1]

I haven't read about McNamara, and I was thoroughly engrossed in my medical career, having been deferred out of the war, to do dialysis where needed stateside, but that war was a lesson that went unheeded. The United States slid into the war embracing the concept of the "Domino Theory." The same institutional ignorance of history, but with a decidedly evangelical flavor, and an idiot in the White House, propelled the prevailing delusions of Rumsfeld and the Neocons to the gravest mistake in U.S. foreign policy in the last hundred years.

I suspect that I will find at least some characteristics in McNamara that I can respect. Rumsfeld is a detestable worm!

[stevegreen]

It's interesting to speculate how the course of the war might have changed had McNamara voiced those doubts more publically, though he did have the World Bank post to consider.