Bob McNamara Dead

[snuffbox]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/06/AR2009070601197_pf.html

50 years too late. I hope the usual deification-upon-death doesn't elevate this guy, too. Unlike others in the LBJ, Nixon, and GW Bush administrations, he later acknowledged that it might have all been a mistake. However, that does not forgive his share of responsibility for the deaths/injuries of so many people.

 

[ericmm]

He seemed EXTREMELY contrite in that interview / movie fairly recently.

 

[snuffbox]

He was in his book, too. But that don't bring back the dead.

 

[ericmm]

I guess it just means that Cheney and Bush have set the bar REALLY low.

 

[snuffbox]

Let's not leave Rumsfeld (so creepy, he even resembled McNamara a bit) out of this. I doubt he will ever show any remorse for the hundreds of thousands of lives that his ideas cost.

Johnson probsbly shaved a few years off his life with what seemed to be genuine feelings for, at least the American, lives being lost in Vietnam. This, like McNamara's near-apology, does not forgive him but it does differentiate him from Bush Jr. Bush's darkest legacy may end up being his blatant callousness towards what he did as president.

 

[Dr. Zaius]

How is it a "near" apology? He seemed pretty sorry. I don't know if he actually used the words "I apologize," but he's been saying non-stop for the last 14 years that he was wrong. That doesn't make him a good guy, of course.

 

[snuffbox]

I think he avoided a full apology because he thought it would make veterans feel bad or something.

 

[Dr. Zaius]

Yeah...of all the stuff he did...THAT'S what'd make the Vets feel bad. Nice logic, Bob.