[Red Badger]

McNamara was responsible for the deaths of 50,000 young Americans and countless Vietnamese, both North and South......

[Hawthorn]

>> McNamara was responsible for the deaths of 50,000 young Americans <<

I don’t think I’d go so far as to put it that way. I believe McNamara was basically just going along with what LBJ wanted. Let’s put the blame where it really belongs, directly on the head of LBJ. By excoriating McNamara, we let LBJ off too easily.

Now one can plausibly say that McNamara was the archetypical coward because although he eventually came to realize the wrongness of LBJ’s strategy, he didn’t speak against it in public nor did he do the truly honorable thing and resign. But the world is full of cowards, whereas the evil genius of an LBJ is a much rarer phenomenon — and fortunately so.

[oh8eleven]

McNamara was responsible for the deaths of 50,000 young Americans
Bullsh*t. Vietnam always was and always will be LBJ's war - period.
If anything, McNamara helped win WWII in a big way, which no one here on FR has mentioned or probably was even aware of.

[guns_for_liberty]

“McNamara was responsible for the deaths of 50,000 young Americans and countless Vietnamese, both North and South....”

Nice to be able to say that, make all the rest of us blameless.