Vietnam War ping.
If it wouldn’t dishonor the men on the wall so much, I think it would be fitting for this SOB to have to wake up on judgment day, looking right into that wall, with the name of every casualty he was responsible for.
There are casualties in all wars. If plans are sound and execution is good, then the SecDef is not responsible for the deaths that will occur. He will have saved lives by implementing a sound plan.
If the policies are not sound, the plans are not sound, and more people die as a result, the SecDef deserves to be skewered for it.
McNamera, I personally believe you are more responsible than any other human being for the millions of people who died in the region.
Jane Fonda and the leftist ilk of the 60s & 70s come in second.
The liberals in our Congress, come in a very strong third.
BTTT
That miserable SOB along with Johnson and their insane war planning is the reason that I have some dear friends names on the wall. In honor of them I will find out where he is buried and give him a beer bath after I run it through my system first!
Mcnamara was the ultimate Incompetent mocked on the every soldiers Zippo.
The unwilling, led by the incompetent to do the impossible for the ungrateful.
Truman lost China and allowed it to invade Korea.
McCarthy saw the infiltration and Venona confirmed it.
Johnson November 65 threw the Joint Chiefs out in "The Day It Became the Longest War".
McNamara the supreme narcissist sacrificing tens of thousands of far, far better men.
Johnson was enormously corrupt. NSAM 273 had circulated in draft fashion before JFK's killing. Johnson signed it the Tuesday thereafter.
Imagine bombing Hanoi, mining Haiphong, allowing no sanctuary anywhere.
No more the ivory tower.
Our current Secretary of Defense comes from the effete CIA.
He coauthored with Zbigniew Brzezinski the 2004 Council on Foreign Relations paper "Iran: Time for a New Approach" calling for negotiating with people who believe a woman's uncovered hair can drive a man mad, and that the Twelfth Imam can be coaxed from a well near Qum after centuries by a nuclear Holocaust and subsequent chaos.
Our new Johnson and McNamara are vastly more evil: ali Hussein and his swordsman slashing the F-22 are the clear and present danger.
Kerry and Kennedy et al have still to answer for their role in the mountain of skulls in Cambodia.
Karma, some call it. Judgment Day, others.
Actions have consequences.
Our Republic will always owe her survival to her brave warriors putting duty, honor, country before the narcissism and lust for power of history's vermin.
Thanks for posting this article. Mike Benge has it precisely right.
Thanks for the ping!