[kimoajax]

Robert MacNamara is and was a jerk. He represented all that was wrong with the politicians running the war efforts. In recent years he tried to play the role of the reluctant victim of circumstances. As a Vietnam vet I have nothing but contempt for him and all his ilk that engaged the US military in a war they had no intention of paying the necessary price to win. We were their playthings. We knew French and Soviet boats were unloading military supplies and equipment in the north that was being used to kill our boys and we were not allowed to take them out.

As far as who he looked like...I think he looked like a Nazi back then. In later years he came to look like an old Nazi.

[Bonaparte]

McNamara and the other "whiz kids" were clowns. Knowing nothing about even the simplest weaponry, they overruled the Pentagon and delivered to our troops combat rifles that didn't work. Barrels that rusted. No cleaning kits. After one or two engagements, these weapons were only good as clubs. Absolute idiots.