Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.
Robert McNamaraThat's one of the major lessons: no president should ever take this nation to war without full public debate in the Congress and/or in the public.
Robert McNamaraThere is no more important task in a democracy than resolving the differences among people and finding a course of action that will be supported by a sufficient number to permit the nation to achieve a better life for all.
Robert McNamaraOne must take draconian measures of demographic reduction against the will of the populations. Reducing the birth rate has proved to be impossible or insufficient. One must therefore increase the mortality rate. How? By natural means. Famine and sickness
Robert McNamara