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Originally posted by m21sniper
Whoa there techweenie!
Robert Strange MacNamara was EASILY the worst SecDef in US history. Rumnamara is a distant second worst.
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Can't agree there. McNamara was lame, but Rummy was a blundering dolt fixated on cutting the size of the Army and over-relying on large, high tech tactical weapons -- despite the fact that the conflict he was engaged in would deepen and broaden through the use of these weapons in urban environments. Big bombs in small, mixed neighborhoods = collateral damage. Collateral damage in tribal societies = tribal/familial vendettas. The soldiers on the ground paid (and continue to pay) the price for collateral casualties in the hundreds of thousands.
There are parallels, and arguably, they are close in some respects, but Rummy is the worst modern SecDef, IMO.