damned if i don't...

The world lost a giant today. Robert S. McNamara died in his sleep at the age of 93. Although Secretary McNamara's name will forever be synonymous with the Vietnam war, it is not the failure of that war that he should be remembered for. He should be remembered for the lessons that the world learned from his mistakes. McNamara recognized the folly of war later in his life. Although he had been a key strategist in the Second World War, helped the world survive the Cuban Missile Crisis and, of course, was the architect of the escalation of Vietnam, it is his mea culpa that he should be remembered for. We lost a piece of history today. The world lost a giant today.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
-T. S. Eliot