Robert S. McNamara Dead at 93

He was the Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War and the subject of the documentary "The Fog of War".

From the NY Times:

"What makes us omniscient?" he asked in "The Fog of War," released at the time of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

"We are the strongest nation in the world today," he said. "I do not believe that we should ever apply that economic, political, and military power unilaterally. If we had followed that rule in Vietnam, we wouldn’t have been there. None of our allies supported us. Not Japan, not Germany, not Britain or France. If we can’t persuade nations with comparable values of the merit of our cause, we’d better re-examine our reasoning."

Read it at New York Times (Via Kottke)