In article , "james_anatidae"
wrote:

"Derek Lyons" wrote in message
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(Jack Linthicum) wrote:

I would say that MacNamara, as usual, is not correct.

MacNamara is busily trying to re-invent his role and his place in
history.

I think a good description of MacNamara is that he is highly intelligent
man
who was (is?) highly misguided and gives little thought to the opinions
of
ours.



But how could he POSSIBLY be misguided by following his own opinions? :-)

Seriously, in the latter phases of the Johnson administration, he found
his intellectual framework, "everything could be quantified and managed
with numbers", had failed. Not to excuse him, but he was an emotional
basket case well before he resigned as SecDef, and gave even worse
advice.