as Joe Galloway points out. Even though not even of draft age, I still vividly remember having a very bad opinion of McNamara. He was the Rumsfeld of the Vietnam War and detested even more than Rumsfeld it seemed, perhaps because there was much more anti-war fervor in those times. McNamara, unlike “Dumbsfeld”, did a much better job of convincing the silent majority that the war was “just”, that he knew what he was doing.
Joe Galloway ends his article:
I can only hope that the last voices Robert S. McNamara heard before he was gathered into the darkness at long last were those of the poor boys in the Infantry, the poor boys of Project 100,000, the poor victims of Agent Orange, the poor Vietnamese farm families whose lives and the very land itself were torn apart by millions of tons of bombs rained on them by the best and the brightest.
Save your tears for them. Bob McNamara certainly doesn’t deserve them.
May the victims of the Vietnam War rest a little easier now knowing this architect of the war who contributed to so much needless death and misery is finally dead himself.
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