Jul 9, 2009
Week of July 6, 2009
Joseph L. Galloway, military columnist for McClatchy Newspapers:
Well, the aptly named former Secretary of Defense Robert Strange McNamara has finally shuffled off to join LBJ and Dick Nixon in the seventh level of hell. McNamara was the original bean-counter — a man who knew the cost of everything but the worth of nothing.
Speaking of the late Michael Jackson, you have to wonder whether some savvy satellite news channel could not make money counter-programing against channels that believe they have a divine right to all put on the same thing. Wasn't anyone at all interested in real news, such as the killing of 7 US troops in Afghanistan?