Mother Jones - Comments for "The Fog of Robert McNamara"

I hope that Robert McNamara

I hope that Robert McNamara in this 93 years of life on this earth,enjoyed his sojourn. I watched from afar in those painful years of the Vietnam War. I have a modest epitaph to honour him by.....May you rot in Hell!.....loveingly signed,David865.

RIP Robert McNamara

McNamara was a distinctive figure, with frameless glasses and slicked-back hair. He stayed in the defense post for seven years, besides he became president of the World Bank. Robert McNamara, a complicated but troubling figure in the past 50 years of American history has died at the age of 93. Robert McNamara was selected as Secretary of Defense under President Kennedy, and again under LBJ. He’s one of the instigators of the Vietnam War and known also for his roles in the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bay of Pigs. You couldn't wash that legacy away, no matter how much money you threw at it. He used the remainder of his life trying to rectify mistakes of the past, but nothing can make up for the millions of dead, regardless of unsecured loans Robert McNamara made to poor people through the World Bank – who'd want his legacy?

War

The only wars the U.S. has won since WWII are Kosovo and Iraq I with the help of other nations and that silly invasion of Grenada overturning a democratically elected leader with help from Jamaican forces. When will we Americans admit that we lost Korea, Vietnam, Iraq II and that we're losing Afghanistan? When will we admit that our military trained in conventional warfare is outdated, outmoded, and inefficient and that our days as superpower are numbered...We should do what Great Britain does: focus on internal matters and help other countries collectively in diplomacy and international matters...

Ultimate escape for a war criminal

With more blood on his cowardly, hypocritical hands than Atilla the Hun and Ghengis Khan combined, I think a fitting monument to McNamara should be in a D.C. dog park, maybe right alongside the Vietnam Vet memorial wall, where thousands of dogs can relieve themselves on his smug pseudo-intellectual, heartless etched face every day for eternity. Not too many people I can share this with who might fully understand, but the fires of hell burn just a little hotter today.

3 of a Kind

McNamara, Kennedy and Johnson were the chief architects of how not to fight a war. If the US military had not been forced to fight an "arms tied behind the back" strategy Vietnam today, much like Korea would be a prosperous democratic ally.

Unfortunately, Ogabe is pursuing the same misguided strategy in Afghanistan - limiting our armed forces and being overly concerned with the deaths of our enemies and their enablers.