Robert McNamara was a very well educated Statesman and a
patriot. During his military years and years as Secretary of Defense he had an extraordinary
ability to quantify everything through statistics. When faced with tough decisions
he would turn to the numbers and charts. His critics would say that he was evil
for looking at people as numbers, but this was his method. His ability to draw
on math to make calculated decisions without incorporating human emotions does
seem cold, but rational. I support what McNamara did for the United States.
In his later years, which always seems to be the case,
McNamara reflected on the decisions he had made for the defense of our country
and felt he had to explain is rational for vindication. After I watched the Fog of War, I felt that he was not a
cold man. I concluded that he was a brilliant mathematician that had a talent
for saving American lives.
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