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Article: McNamara To World: `Moi?'
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- The Washington Post
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- April 23, 1995
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THE TOPIC last week in Washington was Vietnam. A bipartisan rage
has seized the city. Robert McNamara is villain to hawks and doves
alike. Thanks to his memoirs, the debate that should have taken place
30 years ago has resumed, and the level of acrimony is not that much
lower than during those bitter years when to go out to dinner meant
ending up shouting about bombing pauses and pacification.
Readers are writing in to protest either that they knew at the
time that it was futile and fraudulent, or to say that they believed
with Ronald Reagan that it was "a noble cause" and feel equally
betrayed. David Halberstam, the author of "The Best and the
Brightest," is a one-man "truth squad" ...