It's Just Wrong What We're Doing - Robert S McNamara
Published on Sunday, January 25, 2004 by the Globe & Mail (Canada) In an exclusive interview, repentant Vietnam War architect Robert McNamara breaks his silence on Iraq: The United States, he says, is making the same mistakes all over again by Doug Saunders 'Yet we were wrong, terribly wrong. We owe it to future generations to explain why." With those words, written nine years ago, Robert McNamara began an extraordinary final phase of his career -- devoted to chronicling the errors, delusions and false assumptions that turned him into the chief architect and most prominent promoter of the Vietnam war. No historic figure has put so much effort into self-examination: At the age of 87, he has now written three very detailed and analytical books, and starred in one very good movie, devoted to the fundamental mistakes that led the United States into the most politically costly and least successful war in its history. What, then, does he think about Iraq? Until now, the former s...