first time i REALLY felt OLD, was when they retired the Tomcats...
Posted on 07/06/2009 6:21:18 AM PDT by DFG
Former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has died.
McNamara, 93, died at home in his sleep Monday morning, his wife Diana told The Associated Press. She said he had been in failing health for some time.
Known as a policymaker with a fixation for statistical analysis, McNamara was president of the Ford Motor Co. when President John F. Kennedy asked him to head the Pentagon in 1961.
McNamara worked for seven years as the defense secretary in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, longer than any other person in that post. He headed the war department during the build-up of forces in Vietnam.
He is considered the architect of the concept of "mutual assured destruction," a key feature of the nuclear arms race during the Cold War.
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You hit the nail squarely on the head about liberals. Thanks!
You want to get sick to your stomach?
Go to Washington D.C., to the Viet Nam War Memorial and look at every precious name on that long, black wall, and realize that Robert McNamara is responsible for thousands of those names' being there.
Your comparison with the leftists' hatred of Tony Snow is invalid at every level. Leftist haters ARE the legacy of the '60's se_ohio. That hatred of America and all that is right and good is a direct descendent of the leftist hatred of America 40 years ago.
I still agree that we should not be filled with hatred and eaten up by anger, but in this case there is a valid cause for those emotions. In the case of the leftists and Tony Snow, the hate is a result of their own evil, and the goodness of Tony Snow. Totally different in every way.
first time i REALLY felt OLD, was when they retired the Tomcats...
McNamara was like too many people in positions of authority; he possessed an excess of cleverness combined with a dearth of wisdom.
“We” . . .
Speak for yourself.
Another who did a great deal to advance the left: Sandra Day O’Connor!
Just tell the truth and hold your spit.
The American people may not have approved of McNamara, but they continued to elect politicians who carried out McNamara-style follies.
“I would add Theodore Roosevelt to Goldwater list of the most dishonest men.”
Theodore, or Franklin?
Teddy seemed pretty outspoken.
Maybe im stupid to ask what would Jesus say about of all this.
I don’t know if Robert McNamara was a christian. But let us remember that Saul, or Paul.. was a brutal tyrant who had people slaughtered and cursed God for satififaction. The Lord Jesus Christ had mercy on him.
we have to stop this.
spelling correction...
satisfaction
I would never insult anyone’s military service. You did it yourself.
Turn your own cheek.
Corner the bastards, cut them off, and kill them with overwhelming force. Or don't go to war.
Do we want to win? Or do we care what other people think?
/johnny
exactly !
Your reply needs a sarcasm tag.
It is inexplicable how McNamara ended up in the positions he ended up, because he was dangerously incompetent.
Before you go telling Laz what to do, you need to do some research on Project 100,000.
Bad man, good death, indeed.
So what is your problem.
That's a certainty.
No doubt some of them used the Project 100,000 procedures to facilitate their entry. At the same time there were an overwhelming majority of those guys whose only problem had been to be born during a time when the standards for entry into the military were higher than they had been in earlier wars ~ e.g. 1812, Revolution, French & Indian, Queen Anne's, and so on.
Ollie North is the guy who started off lambasting the enlisted personnel brought in under Project 100,000. He just couldn't bring himself to blame the officers managing the program.
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