Robert McNamara - Dead at age 93

[dekeguy]

Best deep cover agent the KGB ever had. There was an editorial cartoon a few years back that had Donald Rumsfeld looking into a mirror and seeing RSM looking back. Enough to make one's blood run cold.

[VandalSquirrel]

I find it odd there was no mention of his first wife in the article about him. He was married to her for much longer than his second wife, and she was the mother of his children. She was pretty amazing in her own right, she founded "RIF" Reading is Fundamental. Margaret McNamara is an Alpha Phi, and Robert, a Fiji.

It was discussed in a course I had that his wife's illness affected him greatly, to the point he shouldn't have been at his job(s) because he wasn't really there and making good decisions.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by dekeguy

Best deep cover agent the KGB ever had.

SRSLY? I never heard that one.

Originally Posted by VandalSquirrel

I find it odd there was no mention of his first wife in the article about him.

Something tells me that the writer of that article didn't look too deeply into the story in general.

Tom, you dingdong, I didn't say he was a hero, I was just pointing out that I don't think there's any such thing in humans as 100% good or 100% evil.

[VandalSquirrel]

Originally Posted by 33girl

SRSLY? I never heard that one.



Something tells me that the writer of that article didn't look too deeply into the story in general.

Tom, you dingdong, I didn't say he was a hero, I was just pointing out that I don't think there's any such thing in humans as 100% good or 100% evil.

I didn't even know he got remarried, I always knew about Margaret, which is why I was she wasn't mentioned in the article at all, especially since they mentioned "children from a previous marriage" I can understand not mentioning a divorce, but he was a widower.

In Path to War Alec Baldwin was entertaining playing him. Not to mention all the other people in it, Felicity Huffman, Tom Skerrit, Gary Sinise, Donald Sutherland. It was made for tv, but it had some LOLs in it, particularly LBJ (played by Dumbledore) driving like a bat out of hell freaking out Lady Bird (Felicity Huffman)..

[dekeguy]

[QUOTE=33girl;1824671]SRSLY? I never heard that one.

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Even today, all these years later, the general consensus in the Army is that McNamara did more damage to the US Forces than anyone could possibly have done through simple stupidity. While the "Best deep cover KGB agent" comment is slightly tounge-in-cheek, it is only slightly so. Remember, this is the fellow who gave Ford the "Edsel". He insisted that "mutually assured destruction (MAD) was the Grand strategy for our National Defense while ignoring and pointedly rejecting the possibility that conventional arms might be required. By concentrating only on weapons of mass destruction and allowing our conventional capabilities to wither and atrophy he invited confrontation with third world nasties who understood that a .22 rifle can kill you just as dead as a thermo nuclear device. The Services are still repairing the damage done by this very dishonorable person. Also, let us not forget just how "well" he did as head of the World Bank. The deeper one looks into this man's record the more troubling the result.