In Retrospect
Robert McNamara In Retrospect Random House New York, 1995 Vietnam had long since been a place of controversy, and where our government focused it’s fear of communism for many years. Throughout the Kennedy and Johnson administrations the government maintained that the war between the Communist north and the south can only be won by the South Vietnamese, and that our military cannot win it for them. It stressed that the fall of South Vietnam to communism would threaten the rest of the western world. Robert McNamara, the Secretary of Defense during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, wrote In Retrospect because he wanted to “Put Vietnam in context,”(xx). McNamara wanted to explain why the mistakes of Vietnam were made, not to justify them, but to help the American public understand them. He relies not only upon his memories, but upon People have often called Vietnam, McNamara’s war, because he made it his responsibility. As he learned more and more about south Vietnam, he became well acquainted with it’s leader Ngo Dinh Diem. Diem portrayed himself as a man who shared our western values. Though as our government would soon realize he was not the man we had
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