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Article: Whiz Kids, Wall Street Division
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- July 15, 2009
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The death of Robert McNamara has confronted the architects of
another massive national catastrophe with a challenge: Will they,
like McNamara in his post-Vietnam agony, acknowledge their failings
and confess the error of their ways? Will they come up with a list,
as McNamara did, of what to do differently next time?
There has already been speculation aplenty about whether Donald
Rumsfeld will ever reassess his performance in the Iraq war. But I'm
not thinking about Rumsfeld or the other men who brought us the war
in Iraq. I have in mind the architects -- every bit as cerebral
and self-certain as McNamara -- of the financial world that
imploded last year. The real latter-day McNamara may ...