Tuesday, July 07, 2009
McNamara: May He Rest in Darkness
As Voltaire said: We owe respect to the living. To the dead we owe only truth. There are few people of the last 50 years whose lives were tainted with as many brutal excesses of American foreign and economic policy as Robert McNamara. For him, the lives of Japanese civilians, Vietnamese peasants, and the citizens of Third World countries were just numbers on a spreadsheet.
Labels: American Empire, Neoliberalism, Political Violence, War Crimes
