Robert McNamara is dead. The man who served as Secretary of Defense under John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson was among the most brilliant minds this nation has produced. His intelligence, however, was exceeded only by his arrogance during the period when he engineered the Vietnam war. McNamara was certain that the mathematics of high explosives and attrition would bring a military victory in Vietnam. People who read more than a modicum of history about that country couldn't figure out, back in the 60s, how he reached such a wrong-headed conclusion. When he finally realized the error of U.S. policy, and was fired by LBJ for saying so, it was far too late. McNamara wrote several books and made an endless "Mea Culpa Tour" in his later years. He said a lot of things, in acknowledging that he and others were wrong. They boiled down to: "We should have listened." He could have been talking to a wall.
He was the best & brightest of Kennedy's gang. He was identified as the architect of Viet nam. Later he admitted it was a mistake; kinda like Biden saying they 'misread the economy.'
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