Wow! Everyone can’t stand this guy. I never heard a negative word about him until he died. Of course I wasn’t alive when he was SECDEF or I was an infant. Fox News is giving some props to the guy though saying that he stopped a nuclear war and was a Republican. The problem is that Fox News has gone so liberal lately that you just don’t know what to believe. I do trust Free Republic as my truthful resource so the guy must have been pretty bad.
This A$$hole was a bean counting, amoral robot who came from a laboratory that turned these people out with regularity - Harvard with assistance form the Ford Motor Co. of the 60’s.
Fox had leaned left for at least a few years now. I do not trust them any more than the rest of the propaganda media machines.
I know of no one who lived though his time in office that admire the job he did. Make excuses for him, but never admire.
Exposing him would expose the lie that somehow Richard Nixon was responsible for a war started by the guy who beat him, Kennedy, that the war that really got going in 1965 was somehow started by the guy who took office in 1969. So, the media cone of silence was dropped.
Johnson and especially McNamara thought they were way smarter than their military people, shutting out the Joint Chiefs from decision-making on Vietnam. You wonder where the idea came from that the politicians never let the military fight Vietnam to win? McNamara and his micromanaging of the war.
He's also hailed as some kind of charitable genius at the World Bank. But the only countries that emerged from poverty on his watch were the ones NOT developing on World Bank loans, but by freeing their economies and supporting business and export expansion. On the other hand, a lot of dictators in countries getting World Bank loans got really rich.
He is Exhibit A why an off the charts IQ and fine education are not enough to make a wise leader.
Oh, and the Edsel fiasco was on his watch at Ford, but that probably doesn’t mean anything to someone of your age!
McNamara was registered Republican when Kennedy appointed him, but I doubt he's voted Republican since then.
Everybody hated McNamara forty years ago.
PBS gave him chances to plug his books, and he took that as some sort of redemption, but it wasn't.
People just forgot about him and didn't want to be reminded he was still around.
Some people say McNamara changed his name to Rumsfeld and picked up where he left off, but that's not right either.