. . . as did MacNamara’s technocratic heir and successor, Donald Rumsfeld, in Iraq.

…Defense Robert McNamara, a holdover from Saint Jack Kennedy’s gang of “the best and the brightest.” Having cut his teeth analyzing reams of “data” on America’s “strategic bombing” of Japan during World War II, McNamara believed in the power of data and numbers to win wars, no less strongly than today’s techno-creeps believe that this power will conquer the world for the…
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Sam Haines
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Apr 15, 2024
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. . . as did MacNamara’s technocratic heir and successor, Donald Rumsfeld, in Iraq. How’d that work out?
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