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Article: ROBERT MCNAMARA AND THE BURDEN OF BEING WRONG.(OPINION)(Editorial)
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- The Capital Times
- Article date:
- July 14, 2009
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Throughout the 1960s, The Capital Times savaged Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's management of the Vietnam War.
To our view, McNamara was wrong, terribly wrong.
Over time, he would come to agree with us.
But too many precious lives were lost before McNamara figured things out.
McNamara, who served under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson and died recently at age 93, was in his day portrayed as the most brilliant technocrat in an era when brilliant technocrats were worshipped by the media and political elites. Unfortunately, his own tragic trajectory confirmed that the best and the brightest were fallible -- in the ...