The Times: Reports on the death of Robert McNamara, Defence Secretary under JFK and LBJ the man that was seen as having taken the USA in to the Vietnam War. Mr McNamara was very intelligent, he was called a computer on legs in his day, but the failure of Vietnam defined him and the USA till the election of Ronald Reagan. As to how history will judge Mr McNamara that is still up in the air, if your on the right you see him as doing the right thing in Vietnam, if your on the left you seen him as having taken the USA in to a war on a lie. The end result was the USA lost the Vietnam War, and the USA does not like to lose, that simple and brutal folks, thus Robert McNamara is seen as a failure overall.
Monday, July 06, 2009
Death in Afghanistan
MOD: Reports on the death of another British Soldier in combat operations in Afghanistan. Thus the total of UK Armed Forces Personnel killed in combat now stands at 145. In total the death total for Afghanistan is 174. These include those that have died of accidents, illness or other incidents. As the War in Afghanistan seems never ending this blog will start to name those killed in combat, thus the MOD has named the two soldiers killed on Saturday. On the 4th July the UK lost the following, Lance Corporal David Dennis, from The Light Dragoons and Private Robert Laws, from 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment. Our thoughts are with their loved ones.
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