> > From: Derby Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/01/18 Wed AM 10:36:28 GMT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: OT: Martin Luther King Day > > P. J. Alling wrote: > > Yes, but McNamara was, (and is), an overrated idiot, and I say that > > with the greatest respect. Some people should never leave academia. > > > > During my high school and uni years, I was really interested in those > times. In LA, I picked up a signed copy of McNamara's "In Retrospect" > (published some years before the Fog of War and more comprehensive). His > time at the World Bank, in my opinion, was no less disastrous, and > probably had a wider reaching effect. In the most sympathetic way > possible, I feel the same way about him as I do about Albert Speer. An > admirable, brilliant man, with a very fatal flaw. I think his remorse is > genuine. > > I have a feeling that he is a very rare breed who find themselves in > this situation, and can be so erudite about their confessions. I have > doubts about any of the current generation of politicians being as open. >
Not just current generation. Many people are venerated because of one thing that they did. The fact that they made a complete arse of many other things is swept away on a tide of eulogy. In their favour, it is probably difficult to keep your feet on the ground when all around you are calling you God. I know it is for me. 8-))))) ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information
