Now that's an editorial

Joseph Galloway on the death of Robert McNamara:

McNamara was the original bean-counter — a man who knew the cost of everything but the worth of nothing.

Back in 1990 I had a series of strange phone conversations with McMamara while doing research for my book We Were Soldiers Once And Young. McNamara prefaced every conversation with this: "I do not want to comment on the record for fear that I might distort history in the process." Then he would proceed to talk for an hour, doing precisely that with answers that were disingenuous in the extreme — when they were not bald-faced lies.

Upon hanging up I would call Neil Sheehan and David Halberstam and run McNamara's comments past them for deconstruction and the addition of the truth.

The only disagreement i ever had with Dave Halberstam was over the question of which of us hated him the most. In retrospect, it was Halberstam.

Halbertstam must have REALLY hated him.

Welcome to a preview of your obituary Donald Rumsfeld.

Now compare Galloway's editorial to the mealy-mouthed apologia from Fred Hiatt and his cast of enablers. I hope Galloway lives long enough to write a few more Op-Eds.