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    Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, from those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

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    War is Hell and McNamara Belongs There

    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 [...]