Legal Commentary

Robert McNamara and Us

By Professor University of Miami School of Law

Robert McNamara is dead. Speak not unkindly and all that, but I’m having a hard time seeing what’s wrong with Bob Herbert’s fire-breathing column.

I suppose McNamara deserves some credit for admitting what he did after the fact, but that’s not much to set aside the fact that he knew early the war was lost, or not winnable, and kept silent.

But are McNamara’s successors any less to blame? They seem to have learned nothing from his errors.

Full post as published by Discourse.net on July 07, 2009 (boomark / email).