THE RECENT DEATH OF ROBERT MCNAMERA REMINDS US OF HIS CRIMES

I have been perusing some of the work of Robert McNamera recently and was, of course, familiar with him as the chief overlord of the criminal wars on Vietnam, Laos, Egypt, Palestine and Cambodia during the Johnson administration. Unfortunately or not there is no hell once you are dead though McNamera certainly proved that the "BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST" are fully capable of making a hell on earth for millions of people. Yes like other decedants with atrocious human rights record he is off the hook, he is dead, dead, dead.

Remarkably, to me, it seems the Vietnamese are not holding grudges or at least that is what we hear in current press reports about Vietnam. I am not Vietnamese in that sense at least and for all I know it is simply people moving forward and repressing the terrors of the past. Still, McNamera should not be forgiven because his confessions were generally unrepentent ones, "We did our best." is his ultimate conclusion on every moral issue.

So as with Johnson and Nixon and so many other so-called "patriots" he got away with killing millions of people for CAPITAL, yes for big money and the Yankee ruling classes. Watching an old 1999 Cspan interview with him right after his best selling retrospective on Vietnam his absolute loyalty and servility to the American ruling class was overabundantly clear.

The reader should try to find it on the net or maybe on Cspan again. He tells story after story about how he wiped the butts of the Ford family in this iconic ruling class family's blundering efforts to make the company profitable again.

It's funny that Henry Ford II winds up running the Ford motor company without any necessary qualifications as had his father Edsel. Edsel was apparently a real screw up and the Ford motor company didn't make money during his reign. Geniuses like McNamera were supposed to save the genuine real thing capitalists from mismanaging things. McNamera and the gaggle of Harvard graduates he brought to Ford to manage it had to take lots of qualifying tests and he even recounts at one point that an effort to get rid of him and some others by giving difficult intelligence tests led to four out of five of the targeted executives doing so well they couldn't be fired, the best and the brightest, the top one percentile. He still glowed with that paper and pencil victory. So these guys were so smart they could outsmart you, me and themselves.

McNamera is pleased that Johnson and he himself prevented nuclear war in Vietnam and it is instructive that he at least claims that many other American leaders wanted to use nuclear weapons in Vietnam.

McNamera did finally get one thing right, one thing that wasn't on an intelligence test that is. He figured out that the Vietnamese revolution was a nationalist revolution. How he managed to see it as a Moscow orchestrated international conspiracy hardly testifies to his intelligence or his candor. He pins the blame for that misconception on Eisenhower who introduced the domino theory. The fall of Vietnam would lead to a Moscow centered revolution in Asia, scary eh? Well my parent's generation swallowed that lie hook, line and sinker.

McNamera was quite clear that Johnson was hoping for a sort of Korean endgame with a North Vietnam and a South Vietnam but since
there was no viable puppet regime it didn't work. No amount of military
support would create a balkanized Vietnam because there just were not
enough Vietnamese to go for it! Ho hum, a few million dead, we live and learn! That was McNamera's rather pedantic way of looking at an entirely unnecessary group of wars, three wars really against three nations and the peoples of those nations.

Yes Mr. McNamera had one of the most heavenly and illustrious careers in American government and now he is dead. Millions died and lived a hellish existance because of McNamera and other imperialist overlords.
Just remember, he was serving the Ford family and other families like them. When will capitalist wars end? When? What do you think?