By James Burnham
The McNamara Critics Club could serve as a model for the Warren Court: membership is open to all, regardless of race, religion, national origin, political party or previous condition of ideological servitude. When the Secretary of Defense opens his mouth to address a college commencement, peaceniks, DuBois Clubbers, Black Powerites and assorted Communists rise from their seats, leave the hall or stadium and join the line of pickets bearing placards condemning McNamara, murderer of mothers and babies. There is seldom a day’s broadcasting schedule from Radio Moscow that doesn’t include a blast against imperialist warmonger Robert Strange-love McNamara. The Bertrand Russell/Jean-Paul Sartre committee will place McNamara on the dock alongside his co-conspirators, Lyndon Johnson and Dean Rusk, on trial as the war criminal trio that has out-Hitlered Hitler. The Worker pictures “Mac the Knife” plunging his dagger into the heart of Vietnam, and labels him “the most aggressive representative of the military-industrial complex” which, from its lair in the Pentagon, has taken power in this country—and tomorrow the world.
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