Robert Mcnamara

Both Sides: Caro on LBJ-BHO, Huff/Matalin on a Gay Week

HuffPost Radio | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Robert Caro, Vice President Biden, President Obama, J. Edgar Hoover, Rachel Maddow, Bullying, Mitt Romney, President Kennedy, Game Change, Robert McNamara, President Johnson, President Bush, Ralph Nader, Gay Marriage, Politics News

Huffington/Matalin discuss how the shunned VP found his voice "in the crack of a gunshot." What can Obama learn from a "political genius" who unified the country on rights but divided it over war?

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The X-Men Didn't Save Us

Joe Cirincione | Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, Cuban Missile Crisis, X-Men, Missile Defense, United States, Kevin Bacon, Mutants, X-Men: First Class, World War III, Robert McNamara, Soviet Union, Entertainment News

It wasn't the mutants. It was humans that caused the Cuban Missile Crisis. Only luck saved us from nuclear war. But other than that, the new film, X-Men: First Class, gets a lot right about the historic crisis that is central to its plot.

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Protect Your Manhood: End the War in Afghanistan

Robert Naiman | Posted 06.08.2011

Read More: Pat Tillman, Los Angeles Times, Negotiations, Max Cleland, Robert McNamara, Vietnam War, Foreign Policy, Afghanistan Casualties, Afghanistan War, World News

Before you enlist or deploy, I think you have to ask yourself whether we still live in the same country that sent Max Cleland off to be maimed in a war in which our leaders did not believe.

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Richard Holbrooke: A Self-Described "Idealistic Realist, or Realistic Idealist"

Andrew Rosen | Posted 05.25.2011

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Historically, lead diplomats have adhered to one school of thought -- I wanted to understand why Richard Holbrooke was different.

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ReThink Interview: Lawrence Bender and Lucy Walker on Countdown to Zero and Nuclear Weapons

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dirty Bomb, Robert Oppenheimer, Lucy Walker, Ronald Reagan, Robert McNamara, Rethink Reviews, An Inconvenient Truth, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear, Jonathan Kim, Nuclear Weapons, Rethink Interview, Dr. Strangelove, Lawrence Bender, Countdown to Zero, Radiohead, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Wmd, Centrifuge, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Highly Enriched Uranium, Nuclear Power, Missile, Food Inc., Plutonium, Uranium, Mikhail Gorbachev, Albert Einstein, Entertainment News

Why are nuclear weapons so far off our collective radars when they retain the potential to extinguish millions of lives -- if not all life on the planet -- in mere minutes?

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How Old is Wisdom?

Jim Lichtman | Posted 05.25.2011

The Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan had an interesting take this weekend (July 17) on President Obama's poll numbers and problems with the economy ...

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A Docudrama Illuminates the Battle Between National Security and the People's Right to Know

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.25.2011

The play Top Secret centers on whether Katherine Graham will give approval to print the Pentagon Papers. For those unfamiliar with the history, it opens a door to understanding concerns of utmost relevance today.

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Dead Folks, 2009: The Missed and the Not Missed

Tallulah Morehead | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Jackson, Budd Schulberg, E. Lynn Harris, Roy E. Disney, James Whitmore, Don Hewitt, Andy Rooney, Gene Barry, Patrick Mcgoohan, Fred Travalena, Farrah Fawcett, Arnold Stang, Ron Silver, Dominick Dunne, Robert Novak, Beatrice Arthur, Soupy Sales, David Lloyd, Frank Mccourt, Jennifer Jones, Ed McMahon, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Robert McNamara, John Updike, Susan Atkins, Dom Deluise, Army Archerd, Brittany Murphy, Larry Gelbart, Ricardo Montalban, Gale Storm, Natasha Richardson, Oral Roberts, Ricardo Montalbán, Doctor Who, Ted Kennedy, John Hughes, George Pal, Herbert G. Klein, Walter Cronkite, Karl Malden, David Carradine, Eastwick, Patrick Swayze, Peter Jackson, Patrick Stewart, Henry Gibson, Celebrity Obituraries, Obituaries, Entertainment News

Here's my own brief look at some of the more notable celebrity deaths of 2009. As always, they fall into two categories: "The Good Riddance List" and "The Folks We'll Miss List."

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McNamara's Ghost

Al Eisele | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Hill, Vietnam, Robert McNamara Dies, Robert McNamara, Robert Macnamara Memoir, Vietnam War, Politics News

When I was editor of The Hill, one young reporter told me about the emotional reaction of her father, a former Naval officer in Vietnam, to McNamara's memoir. I have reprinted it here.

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Control Patrol

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Jackson, Philip K. Dick, Robert McNamara, George Orwell, Dick Cheney, Sarah Palin, Michael Jackson Death, John Ensign, Sarah Palin Resignation, Bill Kristol, Rod Blagojevich, John Edwards, Berry Gordy, Media News

The most risible language contortions this side of Dick Cheney's tortured definitions of "torture" surround mavericky Sarah Palin, whose regular butchering of the English language rivals that of George W. Bush.

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It's Not Science Fiction

Jodie Evans | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vietnam, Robert McNamara, General Petraeus, David Kilcullen, Drones, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Home News

We all need to raise awareness about these inhumane, unjust military practices funded by our taxes.

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Harold P. Ford on Robert McNamara in Retrospect

William E. Jackson Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harold Ford, Pentagon, Robert McNamara, Cia, Vietnam, Politics News

Ford took McNamara to task on several points, but on none more severely than McNamara's complaint that "there were no Vietnam experts" to whom top policymakers could turn for advice.

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Rethinking the Fog of War: McNamara, the Movie, the Monster

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Movie Review, The Fog of War, Nuclear Weapons, Vietnam War, Bob Herbert, Errol Morris, Rethink Reviews, World War II, Robert McNamara, Jonathan Kim, Film, Cold War, Movie Critic, Entertainment News

Most of The Fog of War "lessons" reflect the powerful and painful humility of a man who knows he has made grave mistakes with graver consequences.

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Robert McNamara and the 3.5 Miles not Taken

Byron Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, President Kennedy, Vietnam, Robert McNamara, Vietnam War, Cuban Missle Crisis, Bay of Pigs, Politics News

While it's an oversimplification to suggest McNamara was the primary artisan of Vietnam, we cannot diminish his tragic contribution to the war.

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The Antiwar Protester Who Set Himself on Fire Under Robert McNamara's Window

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Norman Morrison, Robert McNamara, Vietnam, Robert McNamara Dies, In Retrospect, Antiwar Movement, Vietnam Protests, Politics News

Norman Morrison, a Quaker from Baltimore, handed his infant daughter off to a bystander, doused himself with kerosene and set himself ablaze under McNamara's window at the Pentagon.

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Wrong. Terribly Wrong.

Mike Malloy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert McNamara, Robert McNamara Dead, Vietnam War, Vietnam Veterans, Politics News

McNamara's killing spree was without limits, without restriction, completely outside the rules of war so carefully crafted by the world's "civilized" societies.

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Errol Morris, McNamara Documentarian: "There Are No Simple Answers"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert McNamara, Errol Morris, Mcnamara Vietnam, Mcnamara, Fog of War, Vietnam Fog of War, Morris Mcnamara, Politics News

The death of Robert McNamara at the age of 93 has re-ignited a debate about the legacy of the man and the event with which he is most often associated...

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History Has Not Yet Judged Bush

James Denselow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bush Legacy, Robert McNamara, Iraq, War in Iraq, George W. Bush, Kurds, George Piro, General David Petraeus, Fbi, Paul Bremer, Osama Bin Laden, Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Saddam Hussein, Robert Gates, Ryan Crocker, Politics News

Certainly Bush's rewriting of his Iraq legacy will be helped by his decision to reverse his earlier policies, abandoning the idealism of the top-down reinvention of Iraq, for reality-based pragmatism.

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On Al Franken, Robert McNamara, and Running Against Joe Lieberman

Alec Baldwin | Posted 05.25.2011

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No, I am not moving to Connecticut to run against Joe Lieberman. I am sure that Democratic Party leaders in that state will take care of themselves.

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Robert McNamara and Vietnam: A Basic Reading List

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Robert McNamara Dead, Robert McNamara, Pentagon Papers, Vietnam War, Healthy Living News

For anyone who needs a refresher course on America in Vietnam, here is a short reading list from among the thousands of books written about the war.

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The McNamara I Knew

Gordon Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Never before has an American political figure so passionately evaluated his own failings or so determinedly sought to understand the lessons of a tragic war.

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When an Artist, In Vietnam Era, Tried to Drown Robert McNamara -- and Nearly Did It

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

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One of the most dramatic, and in some ways revealing, incidents in the long life of McNamara occurred in 1972 -- when a young man, attempted to heave him off the Martha's Vineyard ferry.

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McNamara's Evil Lives On

Robert Scheer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vietnam War, Robert Scheer, Cambodia, Robert McNamara, Lyndon Johnson, Holocaust, Richard Nixon, Iraq War, Politics News

Whatever his better nature, it was the stark evil he perpetrated as secretary of defense that must indelibly frame our memory of him.

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Robert McNamara: Even In Death, Vietnam War Still Haunts Legacy

McClatchy | David Lightman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gulf of Tonkin, Robert S. McNamara, Kennedy Administration, Robert McNamara Dies, Whiz Kid, Bay of Pigs, Mcnamara's War, Vietnam War, Robert McNamara, Secretary Mcnamara, Vietnam, World News

WASHINGTON -- Robert S. McNamara, the Kennedy-Johnson-era defense secretary, will be most remembered as a man instrumental in sending hundreds of thou...

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A False Divide Between Head and Heart: What I Learned From Robert McNamara

Marie Wilson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Leadership, Women, Womens-Movement, Vietnam, Masculinity, Robert McNamara, Culture, Home News

McNamara once said: "I try to separate human emotion from the larger issue of human welfare." This was his false divide between head and heart, buoyed by the codes of masculinity.

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