Robert S. McNamara, Architect of a Futile War, Dies at 93 (Published 2009)

Robert S. McNamara, Architect of a Futile War, Dies at 93 Robert S. McNamara, the forceful and cerebral defense secretary who helped lead the nation into the maelstrom of Vietnam and spent the rest of his life wrestling with the war’s moral consequences, died Monday at his home in Washington. He was 93. His wife, Diana, said Mr. McNamara died in his sleep at 5:30 a.m., adding that he had been in f

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“We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo — men, women and children,” Mr. McNamara recalled; some 900,000 Japanese civilians died in all. “LeMay said, ‘If we’d lost the war, we’d all have been prosecuted as war criminals.’ And I think he’s right. He — and I’d say

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What makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

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ロバート・マクナマラ死去