From war to World bank.

AuthorTurner, Joe
PositionLetter to the Editor

I am no fan of Paul Wolfowitz--far from it ("Musical Chairs," Comment, May issue). However, let's not forget the man whose chair at the World Bank he is going to occupy, Robert McNamara. McNamara's record at the bank is not that good. And, lest we forget, his war that began forty years ago makes Iraq look like a walkover: 58,000 Americans killed; thousands more addicted to drugs or poisoned by Agent Orange; more than a million Vietnamese and untold numbers of Cambodians and Laotians...

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