[mprovost]

Robert McNamara was secretary of defense for JFK and LBJ during the Vietnam War. Before that he was the president of Ford Motor Company. He's the one who introduced the charts that they used to show on TV with the number of enemy killed, clearly showing that the US was winning since the graphs always went up and to the right.

[Spooky23]

He was fighting the last war. The practice of killing everyone was a successful strategy that won WW2 in the Pacific.

Vietnam wasn’t the type of war that was supposed to happen — the real action was in Europe before we nuked each other.