Robert McNamara Dead

Robert McNamara, the man who almost single-handedly created the Vietnam War, has died at age 93.

McNamara was the subject of the 2003 documentary The Fog of War, which not only chronicled the Vietnam War, but also held up a mirror to the Iraq War.

Under his tenure as Secretary of Defense, more than 100,000 Americans and countless millions of Vietnamese causalities were fallen in the rice patties of Southeast Asia. In his later years, his atonement for his involvement in the War took the form of aid for the world's poorest nations.

Although in his later years he sounded the warning against the Iraq War, he will be forever remembered for what many called war crimes in Vietnam.

To quote the immortal Bard, from Julius Caesar, Act 3 Scene 2:

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him;
The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred with their bones,

Robert Strange McNamara, dead at age 93.

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