Late start today because I was having coffee with Truth and Rocket Science blogger, John Guidry. Read his latest posts about Robert McNamara, who died last week. Guidry and I had a great conversation and, hey, he paid for my coffee at Sweet Melissa. Not bad.
"Robert S. McNamara struggled with his own humanity in the face of all
he had done. His faith in statistics, systems theory, and science was
equaled by his seeming allergy to human emotion, in spite of a life
lived full of emotion. Whether his sense of duty was a righteous sham
or a noble straightjacket cannot be answered now, but we do know that
his sense of duty prevented him from acting on his beliefs. In not
acting – not speaking out against the war and Johnson’s stubborn
pursuit of it – McNamara’s misdeeds became the emblem of his life."
he had done. His faith in statistics, systems theory, and science was
equaled by his seeming allergy to human emotion, in spite of a life
lived full of emotion. Whether his sense of duty was a righteous sham
or a noble straightjacket cannot be answered now, but we do know that
his sense of duty prevented him from acting on his beliefs. In not
acting – not speaking out against the war and Johnson’s stubborn
pursuit of it – McNamara’s misdeeds became the emblem of his life."
It was a great conversation, Louise. Thanks a lot for that and all the local scoop. Cheers!