월남전 기획자 Robert S. McNamara Story
월남전 기획자 Robert S. McNamara Story
And the architect기획자 of America’s long and costly war in Vietnam. Tonight remembering Robert S. McNamara. Nightly News begins now. Word arrived this morning that Robert McNamara has died. It is difficult to this day to find someone who came up during the 1960s who doesn’t have an opinion about him. McNamara died knowing a lot of that was negative despite his attempts to salvage구조 his reputation. His name will always be associated with one place,
John F. Kennedy called him the smartest man he ever met. LBJ said he was brilliant. Robert Strange McNamara was one of the so called whiz수완가 kids, the intellectuals지식인 of the World War Two era, a product of Harvard business school. He was an accounting professor. He ran the Ford Motor Company, then at age 44, he became Kennedy’s secretary of defense. “I’ve asked Robert McNamara to assume맡다 the responsibilities of secretary of defense.”
He was in on the planning of the Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba… a disaster for Kennedy early in his presidency. Then came Vietnam. McNamara admitted much later it was really just a civil war between north and south. But at the time the height of the cold war, the US jumped into to stop the domino theory from playing out. The fear of nation’s falling to the communist one by one. And little by little, it escalated to a half million Americans in the fight and 58,000 dead. It became widely known as McNamara’s war. “
At first, the US tried sheer완전한 might힘,우세, a bombing campaign under McNamara called Rolling Thunder. Years later, the problem was how to get out. By the time he left government and was given the Medal of Freedom by LBL, McNamara was a broken man. It was clear he would always be identified with the war, and when he started to speak at his farewell ceremony, it was clear he knew it. “Mr. President, I cannot find words to express what lies in my heart. And I think I’d better respond on another occasion.”
He went on to run the World Bank, but then McNamara largely disappeared from public life and public view for years. He then broke his silence with a book, In Retrospect. In it, he said he and others had been wrong, terribly wrong, in executing the war the way they did. Then came a powerful documentary, the fog of war. It chronicled McNamara’s World War II experience targeting cities for fire bombings and the staggering toll of civilian deaths. In it, he admits he could’ve been tried as a war criminal if the allies had lost. Viewers got to see McNamara as an old man, his famously slick-back hair now thinning, his voice reedy갈대피리소리 같은, his level of regret not always easy to pin down분명히 설명하다. “A lot of people misunderstand the war, misunderstand me. A lot of people think I’m a son of a….”
People were amazed to learn years later that the McNamara family offered housing to several young people who came to