''In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil..''

Last week it was announced that Robert McNamara had died.

Wikipedia remembers him like this:
Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009) was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense. McNamara served as Defense Secretary for Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1968. Following that he served as President of the World Bank from 1968 until 1981. McNamara was responsible for the institution of systems analysis in public policy, which developed into the discipline known today as policy analysis.





But that's not what I remember him for. I remember him for his involvement in Operation Northwoods.


Operation Northwoods
Operation Northwoods was a plan that was never carried out but was only put to paper. It was not carried out thanks to one man; John Fitzgerald Kennedy. All of the joint chiefs of staff, including Robert McNamera, approved of this document.

Now this document is just a couple of pages thick. In the document there are lots of suggestions to carry out terrorist acts on innocent civilians to create a pretext in order to justify a confrontation with Cuba. It has been kept secret from the public for almost 40 years, but finally it turned up thanks to the J.F. Kennedy assassination review board. It shows the mind set of these people. It is the clearest example of government terrorism. To self inflect wounds in order to justify and push a political agenda. Terrorism. Americans killing Americans. Sounds ludacris right ?

I tried to upload it but it didn't work for some reason, but I have found a website that also uploaded the document, just go here. I suggest you read it. It is one of the most amazing things I have ever read.

Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
(from the Errol Morris film, The Fog of War)

1.	Empathize with your enemy
2.	Rationality will not save us
3.	There's something beyond one's self
4.	Maximize efficiency
5.	Proportionality should be a guideline in war
6.	Get the data
7.	Belief and seeing are often both wrong
8.	Be prepared to reexamine your reasoning
9.	In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil..
10.	Never say never
11.	You can't change human nature What was Robert McNamara's involvement with the document ? He approved of it and passed it on to J.F.K. who was outraged. But that is not the point. The point is that there are people in government (not all of them you paranoid fuck) who do have these thoughts and that documents like these can be swept under the carpet when it's necessary. People do conspire, it's human nature. You'd be naive to ignore that fact. Family members said that McNamara died in his sleep at his home in Washington, D.C. early in the morning on July 6, 2009. He was 93. I imagine him going straight to hell.