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Home Front: WoT
US and NATO's nuclear policies 'immoral'
2005-05-26
UNITED NATIONS: US and NATO nuclear policies are immoral, dangerous and destructive of the global nuclear non-proliferation regime, a former US Defense Secretary from the Vietnam War era, Robert McNamara, said on Tuesday.
Mr. McNamara's successful career lends much weight to his words...
McNamara, who spoke at a conference taking stock of the 1970 nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, was defense secretary in the 1960s under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. He was the architect of early US policy in the Vietnam War.
So obviously he knows what he's talking about...
"If I were to characterise US and NATO nuclear policies in one sentence, I would say they are immoral, illegal, militarily unnecessary, very, very dangerous in terms of the risk of inadvertent or accidental launch and destructive of the non-proliferation regime that has served us so well," he said.
And since McNamara's noted for his spot-on analyses, we should take his words to heart...
McNamara, 88, said the month-long conference should strengthen the treaty and "ensure that North Korea and Iran do not become nuclear powers." But he added, "I believe there is a high probability that the conference will fail to achieve those objectives."
Posted by:Fred

#16  Edward:
Do you get to shoot him? Is he "level boss" or something? If so I might buy the game.
Posted by: Secret Master   2005-05-26 14:49  

#15  "King Fahd...you're having 'those' dreams again...here, take two of these and you'll feel much better..."
Posted by: Seafarious   2005-05-26 13:17  

#14  One needs to remember that this is the man that brought us the Edsel
Posted by: Cheaderhead   2005-05-26 13:15  

#13  I don't care to feel compelled to slap the elderly but there are special circumstances at play here. You think after 88 years he'd have the common sense to shut his trap and drift off into the trashcan of history as the stupid, inept and pathetic POS that he was rather than pile it on. In alot of ways he was immoral, dangerous, and destructive to our nation while he "served." At 88, his words would be better spent trying to apologize and rehabilitate himself. Foolish old man.
Posted by: Tkat   2005-05-26 09:57  

#12  This guy could be the most despicable sleazeball ever to serve in a leadership position in the US government. Worse then even, dare I say it, Ramsey Clark.
Posted by: tu3031   2005-05-26 09:42  

#11  It doesn't surprise me *SPOILER WARNING* that Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater paints McNamara as a political hack with no regard for soldiers -- just when I think they caricatured him, the real one proves to be even worse!
Posted by: Edward Yee   2005-05-26 09:29  

#10  I'd like to know how strengthening the treaty would ensure that North Korea and Iran do not become nuclear powers. It's pretty clear the the non-proliferation treaty has done squat. Lots of countries have gone nuclear during its reign.
Posted by: Spot   2005-05-26 08:41  

#9  RC,
The body rots like any zombie, but the brain was eaten a long time ago.
Posted by: Theaper Angaimble1231   2005-05-26 08:03  

#8  This guy's still alive?
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2005-05-26 07:52  

#7  I would sub this guy for a baby seal at the next pelt gathering. No one will notice or miss him. Damn lying loser.
Posted by: Sock Puppet 0’ Doom   2005-05-26 05:17  

#6  NATO's policies?

Mr. McNamara, I fear that you are somewhat behind the times. President Reagan has already moved the Pershings into Germany. Communist Russia and the Warsaw pact has folded. The Berlin wall is GONE.

However, during what appears to have been a several decades long brain fart that you have suffered (and meriting an entry into the Guiness' book of world records), A Democrat President's carelessness allowed North Korea to progress along the path to developing a nuclear weapon, encouraging it to EXIT the NPT lest it be made to cease and desist. And two Members of NATO, along with the one who left Nato (during YOUR watch, I think?) is ineffectually negotiating with Iran to stop their nuclear aspirations. And no, you wanting a talk with the Shah about it isn't going to work: he's indisposed at the moment, and has been for some time.

Oh, and during this time, Lybia made a run at it, but the Americans and the British (not the IAEA), boarded a ship carrying essential components of their program, so their dictator (his name wouldn't ring a bell, sir, being AFTER your time) decided to fold, gave up his program, admitted to terrorism (you'd be surprised at how big a problem that's become), renounced such ways, and re-opened ties with the West and the United States.

Sir, I recommend crawling back into the sub-space nexus where you've clearly been for decades and try again for Rip Van Winkle's record...
Posted by: Ptah   2005-05-26 04:28  

#5  He gave us McNamara's folly, most of Vietnam, then went on to the world bank and crippled the 3rd world.

Would he please shut up now. He's used up his right to open his mouth at all.
Posted by: 3dc   2005-05-26 01:47  

#4  Wasn't his greatest achievement the Edsel?
Posted by: ed   2005-05-26 01:06  

#3  What! This guy isn't dead yet? OR is he on liberal life support, what a loser.
Posted by: Captain America   2005-05-26 01:01  

#2  When I saw this title I just knew it would be the Mad Mullahs.

Imagine my surprise. Bobby Mac the Master Revisionist. Still hoping for a last-minute reprieve and a ticket to Heaven. Adding Moonbattery and silly insults to malfeasance, cowardice, and murder won't do the trick, Bobby. You're supposed to stop digging when you hit bottom, asshole.

Sorry Bobby, You get Hell. And a more deserving American is hard to imagine. You'll meet all your buddies there, too. Have an unimaginably painful and terrifying time, won't you?
Posted by: .com   2005-05-26 00:16  

#1  I think I'm beginning to see why it took until 1972 before both the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese Army in South Vietnam were defeated*. Guys like McNamara did not want Uncle Sam to win, and set policy accordingly.

* Of course, a Democratic Congress gave it all up by failing to support the South Vietnamese government in the face of a North Vietnamese conventional blitzkrieg.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2005-05-26 00:10  

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