Robert S. McNamara Dies

I wasn't alive during any of his terms, but I did see "The Fog Of War." Excellent film.

Nice picture.

Featured on the US Politics Channel.
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Check the ten extra lessons from the Fog of War DVD. The last ones are the most important to me:

• We, the richest nation in the world, have failed in our responsibility to our own poor and to the disadvantaged across the world to help them advance their welfare in the most fundamental terms of nutrition, literacy, health and employment.

• Corporate executives must recognize there is no contradiction between a soft heart and a hard head. Of course, they have responsibilities to stockholders, but they also have responsibilities to their employees, their customers and to society as a whole.

• President Kennedy believed a primary responsibility of a president—indeed the primary responsibility of a president—is to keep the nation out of war, if at all possible.

• War is a blunt instrument by which to settle disputes between or within nations, and economic sanctions are rarely effective. Therefore, we should build a system of jurisprudence based on the International Court—that the U.S. has refused to support—which would hold individuals responsible for crimes against humanity.

• If we are to deal effectively with terrorists across the globe, we must develop a sense of empathy—I don't mean "sympathy," but rather "understanding"—to counter their attacks on us and the Western World.

• One of the greatest dangers we face today is the risk that terrorists will obtain access to weapons of mass destruction as a result of the breakdown of the Non-Proliferation Regime. We in the U.S. are contributing to that breakdown.

Despite what he did, he really seemed to regret a lot of the bad stuff and have a real sincere desire for peace and progress in third world countries in the latter part of his life.

I hate to say this but he was the Dick Chaney of my Generation.
Although he did show remorse in his later years.

good riddance to a real war mongering scumbag who got in over his head and proceeded to lead American down one of it's darkest and most divided periods of time.

I'm sad that he died, because he did some bad stuff, but he changed, and now, at the time he's died, he was a good person. See "The Fog of War".

Apoligies and regrets aside, making decisions that affect hundreds of thousands of lives should never be made with a slide rule.

Another War Criminal bites the dust.

Should have been put to death for crimes against humanity a long time ago.

58,000 Americans died thanks to that man and lets not forget LBJ himself.

Don't think he is the only one that had blood on his hands. We can't forget Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gates, and still many more.

~God Save The Republic~

He was indeed the Cheney of his time but unlike the Cheney of our time he learned from his mistakes after at least admitting them. You have to reward intelligence even if it takes a minute to surface. If for no other reason than admitting military action in Vietnam was wrong and saying as much about Iraq he deserves respect posthumously - RIP.

Bitch slap tricky Dick if you run into him.

@esoares on twitter says "Link para artigo sobre a morte de Robert S. McNamara:"

Hey did you all feel that? The world just got a little lighter? ...we lost an asshole!!!! YAYYY!!!

Fucken celebrate!!!

Good riddance. 1 down, 1000 PNAC-ers to go. But like the saying goes--"only the good die young". I hope somebody shits on his grave, or flushes his ashes down the toilet.

About 50 years too late, I say.

so many i knew died in vietnam, evading the draft still shames me.

Yes, the good must die young. So that evil prick Kissinger will live to 135.

Let's hope Kissinger is next.

Yes Kissinger has been using the air way too long and needs to meet his maker. Satin!

The last member of Kennedy's cabinet dies and hopefully others will learn from his mistakes

he was a good secretary of defence, he had to make potent decisions during difficult times. I extend my greatest gratitude to him for evading a nuclear war during the Cuban missile crisis.

RIP

I've often wondered if the people that are in the position to create a war actually had to suit up as the kings and their courts of ancient times did and actually help fight that war...would there be fewer wars, and the ones fought, would they end more quickly? My feeling is that the answer to both these questions is yes.
McNamara was just some aparachik in the whole military industrial complex...that is our real enemy..not an individuals' blundering decisions on their behalf.

He's responsible for one of the worst era's in World history.

I'm a military brat. My friends lost a lot of family members, (Fathers,Sons & Brothers) in the Viet Nam War.There was always a lot of crying and silent tears back then. We never knew just who was going to get that knock on the door. My Dad sent my older brother to the Air Force Academy, just to avoid the draft. He had an eye injury there that cost him nearly 60% of his eye sight. They sent him then,home because he couldn't fly. Recently, 37 years later at 57,he just had another surgury to help save his remaining sight.

My Father came back an angry and emotionally disturbed alcoholic.Try coming home to someone like that as a teenager everyday.

Good riddance Mac.