If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals. Robert McNamara More Quotes by Robert McNamara More Quotes From Robert McNamara Rationality will not save us. Robert McNamara rationality thinking The commitment of government to deal with the population issue is of course essential....There are many ways to make the death rate increase. Robert McNamara issues government commitment Management is the gate through which social and economic and political change, indeed change in every direction, is diffused though society. Robert McNamara economic political management ...but highly placed sources within the Kennedy Administration disagreed: "[T]he assumption that the strategic nuclear balance mattered in any way was wrong... As far as I am concerned, it made no difference... If my memory serves me correctly, we had some five thousand strategic nuclear warheads as against t heir three hundred. Can anyone seriously tell me that their having three hundred and forty would have made any difference? The military balance wasn't changed. I didn't believe it then, and I don't believe it now..." Robert McNamara military memories believe It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives. Robert McNamara umpires nuclear would-be It is true that at the time [1962] we had a strategic nuclear force of approximately five thousand warheads compared to the Soviet's three hundred. Robert McNamara nuclear three time I would characterize current US nuclear weapons policy as immoral, illegal, militarily unnecessary, and dreadfully dangerous Robert McNamara nuclear weapons inspirational That is absolutely a fear, and it's something we see happening, in the immediate aftermath of Kelo, you saw a lot of local government officials and developers realize they had been caught with their hand in the cookie jar. They realized that suddenly people were watching. Ten years on you are starting to see in a number of states, local government officials and developers start to look at that cookie jar again. Robert McNamara politics Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him. Robert McNamara after him man freedom We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win? Robert McNamara women men death children
