[RobbyS]

IMHO, the war drove him crazy. He was in at least some respects like Stanton, Lincoln’s war minister. Stanton was also unstable. But Johnson was no Lincoln, so there was no one to balance McNamama. Indeed, many of the charges the reviewer makes against McNamara should be laid against Johnson and his other close advisers.

[TCats]

Let’s not leave out another of the cynical, arrogant and ambitious on the backs of others - Henry Kissinger.

I’m awaiting his obituary as well.

[Interesting Times]

Indeed, many of the charges the reviewer makes against McNamara should be laid against Johnson and his other close advisers.

Agreed. But the "brilliant" McNamara was arguably the most arrogant and wrongheaded of the bunch.