TNR: ONE QUICK THOUGHT ON DONALD RUMSFELD

ONE QUICK THOUGHT ON DONALD RUMSFELD: "In mid-1967, Robert McNamara recognized the Vietnam war, which he had argued for so vociferously and prosecuted with such zeal, was unwinnable. Yet the war continued. When Lyndon Johnson, the following year, fired him as defense secretary and appointed him to the World Bank presidency, McNamara, feeling the burden of what he had done to the country, cried at his press conference. One looks at Donald Rumsfeld’s spittle-flecked speech calling millions of antiwar Americans traitors and Nazi-appeasers, and thinks: At least Robert McNamara had a sense of shame."