Robert McNamara Vietnam Quotations

The greatest contribution Vietnam is making-right or wrong is beside the point-is that it is developing an ability in the United States to fight a limited war, to go to war without the necessity of arousing the public ire.

The war in Vietnam is going well and will succeed.

What makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

I formed the hypothesis that each of us could have achieved our objectives without the terrible loss of life. And I wanted to test that by going to Vietnam.