America still, all these years later, can't control a renegade president in office who wants to wage war against the will and reason of the people. Our government has been self serving and out of control for 40 years now, at least.
I suspect McNamara felt he was doing some sort of penance by serving as the president of the Wold Bank for 13 years where he focused on doing some good in the world with his massive intellect.
Others are not so charitable:
Robert McNamara, who died this week, was a complex man—charming even, in a blustery way, and someone I found quite thoughtful when I interviewed him. In the third act of his life he was often an advocate for enlightened positions on world poverty and the dangers of the nuclear arms race. But whatever his better nature, it was the stark evil he perpetrated as secretary of defense that must indelibly frame our memory of him.
[From Truthdig - Reports - McNamara’s Evil Lives On]
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