Robert McNamara on the Press and Vietnam

In a 1995 Booknotes interview Former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara talked about press coverage of the Vietnam War.

http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/vidLink.php?b=1246900114&e=12469001...

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[dareallink]

he fought zombies, enough said

[joneselius]

Your name suggests more than I need to know.

Your insults are useless, they only remind me of the state of the collective human separation. A species divided falls.

[kakompo]

@dontchastop Yea I know that. 

[dontchastop]

@kakompo He's dead; Kissinger is still alive. Good luck.

[kakompo]

I know where McNamara deserves to be - International Court of Justice in the Netherlands. That's where war criminals are.

[rifleshot07]

cheers for the vid a perfect source for my A level coursework.

[davedaddy101]

That Prick!

[RuflessRecords]

@bapyou as far as Iraq, the liberal media did hype US casualties as an effort to beat down any support for the war at home.

When it came to deliberate murders of civlians and atrocities, nearly all of which were committed by the people we fought, the media instead hyped up flyspecks like Abu Ghraib. The naked pyramids of terrorists there got more focus than tens of thousands beheaded, blown up in funerals, pet markets, job lines or restaurants, or otherwise murdered by terrorist groups.

[RuflessRecords]

@bapyou no, communism requires mass murder, violence and repression for 2 reasons. A) the current owners of farms, factories, banks etc; will not all voluntarily give up their property and so must be forced to in order to institute allegedly proletarian control of the economy and B) nearly all communists and far leftwingers are filled with hatred and seething rage against people who've succeeded in life and will use power to get gruesome revenge against their enemies, real or imagined.



[bapyou]

@RuflessRecords "with Vietnam the liberal media has seen its duty as that of magnifying all negativity towards the democracy involved in the conflict"

Dear Asshole:

Communism is a system of economics, not politics. With true communism, democracy increases. Look at the neighborhood councils in Cuba.

"any deaths caused by the [US] military are given a lot of airtime, the atrocities on the other side mostly ignored."

In Iraq it's the opposite: the entire focus is US casualties.

[guyNbluejeans]

This nightmare of a human being, McNamara, is what happens when citizens put their leaders on pedestals and don't question everything they do.