robert mcnamara

Kevin Drum sort of freaked out over Robert McNamara’s death and let a very human burst of empathy explode into an unnecessary spasm of self-loathing. As a defense secretary, Robert Gates is a sort of anti-McNamara — a guy who comes in to mitigate another man’s disaster; does a good job; and then goes looking [...]

RIP, Robert McNamara. Nothing you ever did after Vietnam zeroed the balance. So when will Errol Morris make his Rumsfeld documentary?