Tie Breaker, WorSecDef 0
Shaun Mullen wonders who was the worst Secretary of Defense (or Secretary of War, to use the original name of the office) in U. S. history.
He narrows it down to two persons,
- Donald Rumsfeld, who’s currently making the round the talk shows flogging his new book, a tua culpa, or
- Robert McNamara.
You can follow his reasoning at the link. Here’s the tie breaker:
But without McNamara, there still would have been a Vietnam War, while there would not have been an Iraq war without Rumsfeld.
