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Robert McNamara

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[-] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 1 points 4 years ago
[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 1 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago)

Braver than the troops.

Amazingly, after the ship got to shore, McNamara did not press charges

It's like he knew he deserved it.

[-] EugeneDebs@hexbear.net 1 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago)

In 1962, McNamara supported a plan for mass spraying of the rice fields with herbicides in the Phu Yen mountains to starve the Viet Cong out, a plan that was only stopped when W. Averell Harriman pointed out to Kennedy that the ensuing famine would kill thousands of innocent people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_McNamara#cite_ref-FOOTNOTELangguth20001963_48-0

[-] anaesidemus@hexbear.net 1 points 4 years ago

Looking over that I spotted this fellow who seems to have realized the character of the war.

[-] Circra@hexbear.net 1 points 4 years ago

Holy shit, his entire page reads like a perfect unholy blend of sheer evil and utter incompetence.

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 1 points 4 years ago

He should've been successfully thrown off that boat and parodied

[-] anaesidemus@hexbear.net 1 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago)

McNamara's own teenage son, Robert Craig McNamara, was opposed to the war and denounced his father when he came from work every day. McNamara was shocked to discover that the American flag was hanging upside down in his son's bedroom as the younger McNamara told him that he was ashamed of America because of him.

what a chad!

[-] Circra@hexbear.net 1 points 4 years ago

He doesn't look like the sort of person who would actually strangle you, but I can so easily imagine him coming across someone choking to death or having a stroke or something and just pulling up a chair to watch them die.

[-] Leon_Grotsky@hexbear.net 1 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago)

Pulls out a cloth to wipe glasses lenses.

"Oh, don't let me bother you.

crosses legs

Please, continue."

[-] cracksmoke2020@hexbear.net 1 points 4 years ago

This haircut is the haircut of 1980s neocons, it isn't an exclusive haircut of all psychopathy, but instead this very specific sort of elite breed of psychopathy.

[-] AntiNouns@hexbear.net 0 points 4 years ago

The S in Robert S. McNamara stands for sucking penis

[-] Aspiring_Dirtbag@hexbear.net 1 points 4 years ago

Little known fact

[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 1 points 4 years ago

No need to make him sound cool.

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 0 points 4 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

I haven't seen Fog of War yet, have you

[-] Electrickoolaide32@hexbear.net 1 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago)

I was about to recommend this. It’s a damn good look into the mind of McNamara.

He viewed war the same way he viewed profits when he worked at Ford. An all around psychopath who only in the absolute winter years of his life begin to even recognize the sheer amount of horror he wrought upon the world.

It’s been forever since I’ve seen it, but it was also the first time I was introduced to the term “technocrat”

this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2020
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