The Gadfly
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Read what I wrote a bit more closely, please. I recommended reading Robert McNamara's book as a primary source of information and Chomsky's on-line compendium as a secondary source for those who reading a whole book is too daunting a task.
So read the excerpted quote again, this time being mindful that it is McNamara's quote. Not Chomsky's. The quote tells the whole tale. What Chomsky has to say is redundant. You can agree with it if you wish to or reject it if you choose. It doesn't change a thing.
I did, McNamara is a self serving prick, responsible for the needless deaths of thousands of GI's due to his incompetent micro management.
That is not the major point of McNamara's contrition
Robert McNamara - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"[h]e concluded well before leaving the Pentagon that the war was futile, but he did not share that insight with the public until late in life. In 1995, he took a stand against his own conduct of the war, confessing in a memoir that it was 'wrong, terribly wrong.'" In return, he faced a "firestorm of scorn" at that time
Typical McNamara-even after all these years, that so-called "genius" knows he fucked up Vietnam, but STILL does not know how he did it! Well, here's a hint, Bob-IF you and those other civilian "whiz kids" on your staff could have removed your heads from your arrogant, elitist arses long enough to figure out whatever the hell it was you wanted us to do, things might have turned out differently. As it was, what we have here is a failure of leadership. NOW, you're sorry? Go look for your absolution elsewhere; you can start at the Wall.....