<![CDATA[Robert McNamara and the 3.5 Miles not Taken]]>

1.0 link 227456 <![CDATA[Robert McNamara and the 3.5 Miles not Taken]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/byron-williams/robert-mcnamara-and-the-3_b_227456.html Following the Bay of Pigs crisis, President Kennedy stated: "Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan."

JFK might have also said that failure has a longer institutional memory among one's detractors than success has among one's supporters.

That latter observation might fit former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara who died this week.

For his unforgiving critics, the name Robert McNamara has a Nixonian-like aftertaste that continues to linger decades after his contribution to the public conversation ceased to be an...

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