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57 minutes ago by Chris

Boy, they just keep dying, huh? This time it’s Robert Strange McNamara, who was Secretary of Defense during much of the Vietnam War. McNamara was an intersting fellow. Very intelligent, very capable, but clearly someone who, at least for a while, believed his own hype and thought he (and the Kennedy ...

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2 hours ago by Rod Dreher

The best thing you can do to mark the death of Robert S. McNamara, who passed away today at 93, is to rent Errol Morris's 2003 documentary "The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara."...

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2 hours ago by Lyonel Kaufmann

Robert McNamara et John Kennedy a Hyannis Port en 1961 . (Keystone) Le nom de l’ancien secrétaire à la Défense reste associé à la guerre à outrance au Vietnam, même s’il a ensuite pris ses distances avec le gouvernement américain. Ainsi le temps des témoins fait progressivement place au temps de l’h ...

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2 hours ago by diana

We wish an eternal good night to Robert McNamara, who died in his sleep early this morning at the age of 93. There were many lessons learned from the former Secretary of Defense's mistakes regarding US involvement in the Vietnam war, to be sure--but perhaps we gleaned more by appreciating his abilit ...

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2 hours ago by Lyonel Kaufmann

Robert McNamara et John Kennedy a Hyannis Port en 1961 . (Keystone) Le nom de l’ancien secrétaire à la Défense reste associé à la guerre à outrance au Vietnam, même s’il a ensuite pris ses distances avec le gouvernement américain. Ainsi le temps des témoins fait progressivement place au temps de l’h ...

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2 hours ago by mariesophie

Chaque année, la mousson en Asie du Sud-Est apporte de très fortes pluies et des inondations saisonnières, entre juillet et Octobre. En 2008, des centaines de personnes ont été tuées par des crues subites déclenchées par les fortes précipitations au Vietnam et au Laos, ainsi que par les crues du fle ...

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2 hours ago by KenInNY

Washingtonpost.com News Alert: Robert McNamara, Architect of Vietnam War, Dies at 93 Robert S. McNamara died in his sleep at his home in Washington early this morning, family members said. McNamara, who served as secretary of defense during the Vietnam war under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, was 9 ...

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2 hours ago by Chris DeLuca

Sometimes the Reaper robs us of someone in the prime of their lives, other times he takes the architect of the Vietnam War at the age of 93. The Reaper is weird like that. But then again, why would he take Robert McNamara early, the guy was good for the Reaper’s business, right? For those of you who ...

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3 hours ago by Mark Williams

Robert McNamara finally told us in 1995 that he knew as early as 1967 American kids’ lives were being flushed lives down the drain in a war of attrition and the Homeland was being ripped apart because so many of us just plain knew. He remained silent for the next 22 years. Now the monster is dead. T ...

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3 hours ago by z00mbite

At the beginning of his professional career, he made a name for himself as the wunderkind who reformed the ailing Ford Motor Co. At the end, he tried to rehabilitate his reputation, as a do-gooder striving to save the globe’s poorer nations as head of the World Bank. But Robert McNamara, who died ea ...

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