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Robert McNamara’s admission about the Vietnam War reflects only one of his disservices to the United States.

At the Ford Motor Co. he “perfected” the idea of cost-cutting at the expense of quality, pride and innovation. Thanks to him, the importation of foreign cars went from a trickle to a torrent.

Finally, the huge bureaucracy that McNamara created at the Pentagon is now the target of billions of dollars in savings by Newt Gingrich.