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Originally Posted by dd74
Re. "Nutters." Eh! Don't take them too seriously. Increasingly few in our country even listen to accusations like Jane and Peter Fonda "lost the war." Look, when the U.S. Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, who designed the war, began to doubt its abilities, then one can attest that the war was truly in a losing state:
Although he was a prime architect of the Vietnam War and repeatedly overruled the JCS on strategic matters, McNamara gradually became skeptical about whether the war could be won by deploying more troops to South Vietnam and intensifying the bombing of North Vietnam, a claim he would publish in a book years later. He also stated later that his support of the Vietnam war was given out of loyalty to administration policy. He traveled to Vietnam many times to study the situation firsthand and became increasingly reluctant to approve the large force increments requested by the military commanders.
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Yup. McNamara's autobiography is an interesting read.
Of course he's vilified by the right, because he regrets his role in the Vietnam War, but I think its just proof that he was one of the rare politicians with a conscience.