Comments about ‘McNamara in the muddle’

On hearing of the Passing of Robert McNamara, thoughts and bitter memories returned.

America did Not Lose The Vietnam War. America Quit and went Home. We allowed (after removing the political people) Saigon to fall into the hands of the Communists, There are Pictures of the Last Chopper Out, and the people trying to hang on to the rope ladder as they are left behind, to who knows what fate.

There is No Need to be up set over this Mans Death, He has been out of power for decades and unable to hurt anyone or anything.

Most of his Band (100,000+ Cat 4s) served well and with honor.

History will be what it will be. In his book, his spin was somewhat different and angered some Vets. The best response to that was to not buy or read the book and change the channel.


We where there Boots on the Ground. We know what happened and did not happen, and what we where allowed and not allowed to do.

What it is mostly is Over, and with his Death more over then ever.

Cry in my Dim Sum, I will not. Just Quietly Note his passing.

At the end McNamara realized that he had been wrong. What a tragic figure.

Robert McNamara tried to absolve himself for his role in the Vietnam diaster in Errol Morris' documentary 'The Fog of War'. However, like the Bush/Cheney administration and the Iraq Way, there are some things from which someone can never find redemption.

McNamara's passing is just another bit of history from a tragic period in American history fading into obscurity.

Just for the sake of accuracy, I think awsomeron could have pointed out that McNamara left office a full seven years before the rooftop helicopter scene he described. That was in 1975, and Ford was President.

For somepeople in the Bush/Cheney administration to realilze that our little preemptive war in Iraq was a mistake?

I understand many here in Utah still think it was just and proper but the majority of Americans do not.

Eventually more and more peoople including those who pushed so hard for the war will realilze their error.

Another obituary on the opinion page.

Billy Mays died not long ago. What about some musings on his life and career?

Liberals ignore the fact that when the US left Veitnam,

the communist took over and murdered over 2.2 million people in vietnam and cambodia,

pales in comparisison to fifty thousand or so who died in the war.

so much for liberal compassion.

They NEVER see the big picture,

same for the Iraqi war.

Well "LIBERAL IGNORANCE" I'm a liberal Democrat but I DO see the big picture. Though I'm a Democrat I learned to hate Johnson and McNamara, especially the latter. He was the mastermind who engineered our interference in a civil war which cost over 55,000 American lives. Do you remember those times? Too bad we didn't learn anything from them, witness the lies we were told taking us into Iraq.

I also believe that the Obama administration's perpetuation of the Afghanistan war is also a mistake which may well cost thousands of U S lives (the Soviet Union went there to die), in much the same way Vietnam tarnishes JFK's legacy.

But you seem to easily forget what happened to the people after we left.

There is MUCH more to the BIG picture than just the lives of some soldiers.