What, then, does he think about Iraq? Until now, the former secretary of defence has avoided comment on the actions of that job's current occupant, Donald Rumsfeld. The two are often compared to each other in their autocratic leadership styles and in their technocratic, numbers-driven approaches to war. And their wars, of course, are often likened. But Robert McNamara has insisted in staying out of the fray.
He decided to break his silence on Iraq when I called him up the other day at his Washington office. I told him that his carefully enumerated lists of historic lessons from Vietnam were in danger of being ignored. He agreed, and told me that he was deeply frustrated to see history repeating itself.
"We're misusing our influence," he said in a staccato voice that had lost none of its rapid-fire engagement. "It's just wrong what we're doing. It's morally wrong, it's politically wrong, it's economically wrong."
It's just wrong what we're doing
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Stumble It!
At least colonized \"Douggie Saunders\" is writing about U.S. misdeeds for a change.
Robert McNamara sounds so \"Canadian,\" talking of the importance of international bodies, such as the INternational Criminal Court, which the U.S. recruits against, although Saddam could\'ve been removed without a war that way.
That being said, McNamara was stating the obvious to every country, except the United States.
I DISAGREE WITH 2 COMMENTS BY McNAMARA:
1 - He mentioned how the U.S. must recruit countries with similar values, to paraphrase. I\'m not sure similar values exist with any country anymore, as far as they are concerned. Maybe eiltes, or politicans, but not citizens. If not Canadians, DEFINITELY not the Europeans!!!
2 - McNamara thinks the U.S. will be the sole premier, economic, military, and political power for the REST OF THIS CENTURY!!! (966 years.) This is RIDICULOUS!!! China\'s economy is already alomst bigger, India is improving, RUssia will bounce back, and Canada could be revived. However, as I read a few months ago on the Dominion Paper site, French writer predicts the U.S. empire peaked in the 1980s, and is weakening. He beleives attacking Iraq was in response to decreased power, especially technological.
It appears the military-industrial-complex will do-in the States, as it did to Britain. Britain ignored Public schools, made education elitist, spent disproportionate amounts on military, and ignored domestic-issues, and imploded, due to a poorly-educated, ignorant popultaion, plain-and-simple.......see a pattern?
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