Robert McNamara Quotes
We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.
McNamara, Robert S. In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam. Times Books, 1995, p. 323.
Dulles lied to Congress. The CIA at the time was supplying planes and American pilots in support of an anti-Sukarno Government faction that was in armed revolt. It is not clear whether or not Dulles knew the truth when he had so testified.
Hobson, like Mark Twain in America, was a major critic of imperialism.
The strong American instinct toward unilateralism, narrowly defined self-interest, and operating under the banner of the United Nations has its traditional roots.
Eisenhower was clear on this point but the neoconservatives of the Republican party advocated just the opposite and decades later would influence American foreign policy to have a different view and aggressively export American democracy as in the Iraq War.
The Congressman was being critical of the George W. Bush Administration and their tendency to decide which leaders and countries were legitimate and moral and which were not, and then invading the “bad” and executing the leaders as with Iraq and Saddam Hussein.
Robert Strange McNamara was an American business executive and the eighth United States Secretary of Defense, serving from 1961 to 1968 under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He played a major role in escalating the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War. McNamara was responsible for the institution of systems analysis in public policy, which developed into the discipline known today as policy analysis.
