Robert McNamara...DEAD

[KnoxHarrington]

Robert McNamara, who, as Secretary of Defense under LBJ was a key architect of the strategy to fight the Vietnam War, has died at age 93.

Seriously, watch "The Fog of War" now if you haven't already. Incredible documentary, and very enlightening about the blunders this country keeps making in foreign policy and how we make war.

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[Sue_Bender]

"The Fog of War" was both disturbing and enlightening.

Indeed, a terrific documentary.

R.I.P.

[thepaulo]

So the question is,
Does he go to heaven or to hell?

[A.J.]

So the question is,
Does he go to heaven or to hell?

He instituted the PPBS (Planning, Programming and Budgeting System) (http://web.nps.navy.mil/~kishore/mpt/programming.process.ppbs.htm) that's still in use at DoD today. For that he should go to hell.

[Zorro]

Guy sent thousands of young men to their deaths and then spent the rest of his life seeking a redemption that would never come

[TheMojoPin]

Brilliant guy but made some critical bad decisions.

Alec Baldwin played him very well in Path to War.

[Serpico1103]

Fog of War is great. Sad, we haven't learned the lessons he tried to teach us.

[Thomas Merton]

The bad karma he absorbed watching those Buddhist monks immolate themselves from his Pentagon office window is more than enough to send him to a fiery afterlife

[TheMojoPin]

The bad karma he absorbed watching those Buddhist monks immolate themselves from his Pentagon office window is more than enough to send him to a fiery afterlife

It was one guy at the Pentagon. His name was Norman Morrison, he was American and he was a Quaker.

[hanso]

All we are saying is war a chance.
Things haven't changed much from when this guy was in power.