The worst Secdef in my lifetime.
Doggone shame we can't hold his trial now.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286427/posts
1. Simon Cameron
2. Robert S. McNamara
3. Donald Rumsfeld
You should read the book “The Reckoning” by David Halberstrom. McNamara may have been President of Ford, but he knew almost nothing about either cars or manufacturing. He held manufacturing people in low regard and resisted investment in factories. At one point, he suggested that factory efficiency could be improved by assembling a car in two halves and then welding them together. Unbelievable, but true. The long decline in US car quality started with him.
He and his “Whiz Kid” accountants screwed up the auto business back in the 50’s.
The worst Secdef in my lifetime.
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Vietnam vets agree.
Agreed.
Aspen, Perry, and Cohen are the worst for me.
The ones who advance liberalism the most and draw the most contempt from the people often end this way. They carry the most water, and the left still makes them non-persons instead of mascots. Earl Warren, Lyndon Johnson, Anita Hill, and Janet Reno come to mind.
Come on, he wasn’t worse than Harold Brown of the Carter Iran hostage rescue attempt.
So McNamara was the “conscience of the West.”
Busing, immigration and gun control enthusiast Philip Hart was known as the “conscience of the Senate” around the same time. He didn’t work out so well for the country either.
I smiled when I read this yesterday…then I asked the Lord’s forgiveness.
15 months at Portcall (Tactical Radar Control) near Nha Trang gave me a chance to see RSM’s work up close and personal.
I stole a line from one of his speeches years later for my Master’s Thesis at AF ACSC/Auburn, “People were drowning in data, while thirsting for knowledge”.
Years later I was sitting in a room with Westmoreland and five other folks talking. Westy said stopping the BUFF’s going downtown was the biggest mistake of the war. He was certain we had’em on the ropes but let them escape.
Interesting, over 250 posts and not one word about his time at the World Bank. Just shows you one build a thousand railroads and suck one time and you’re known as that for the rest of your life.
Good riddance to this elitist fool. 30 years after Vietnam, the scum had the audacity to say that he doubted the success of the very war he executed under Kennedy and Johnson.
So, even as he doubted, he continued to send American soldiers into harm’s way. What a guy. What a redemption.
Then, 40 odd years later, a guy names Rumsfeld tries to fight the same kind of minimalist war under Bush. History repeated—again.
Both McNamara and Rumsfeld were/are elitist idiots who knew nothing about war and learned nothing about war.