On AlterNet: Robert McNamara

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Two Mass Murderers, Two Very Different Stories and Much Hypocrisy

Nick Turse, TomDispatch.com. August 31, 2009.

William Calley and the alleged Pan Am bomber were both convicted of mass murder. Yet Calley's recent appearances have provoked no outrage. Why the double standard?

Robert McNamara Was Never Really in Touch with His Role in Causing Atrocity in Vietnam

Andrew Lam, New America Media. July 9, 2009.

"When a man confesses yet cannot connect the horror he helped unleash with his own humanity, he is not to be trusted."

Hunter Thompson Knew It Well: Robert McNamara's Vision for America Was Imperial and Elitist

Joe Costello, AlterNet. July 7, 2009.

The death of Robert McNamara is a time to remember how dangerous the idea of technocrats running Washington has been.

The Tragedy of Robert McNamara Does Not End With Vietnam

Will Bunch, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. July 6, 2009.

McNamara was a warped prophet, a flesh-and-blood monument to the folly of militarism. And yet Americans failed to listen.

Vietnam-era U.S. defense secretary Robert McNamara dead

Agence France Presse July 6, 2009.

McNamara oversaw the escalation of U.S. war efforts in Vietnam from 1961 to 1968.