Mr. McNamara died in 2009 in his sleep aged 93

His wife, Diana, said Mr. McNamara died in his sleep at 5:30 a.m. - Robert S. McNamara, Architect of a Futile War, Dies at 93

“We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo — men, women and children,” Mr. McNamara recalled; some 900,000 Japanese civilians died in all. “LeMay said, ‘If we’d lost the war, we’d all have been prosecuted as war criminals.’ And I think he’s right. He — and I’d say I — were behaving as war criminals.”

“What makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?” he asked. He found the question impossible to answer.

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see also The Fog of War

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