The Peaceful Death of a War Criminal
July 6, 2009
I have heard of Robert McNamara’s death only on LRC and Amy Goodman’s “Democracy Now.” The mainstream media remains worked up over Michael Jackson’s funeral arrangements and other diversions.
If the prosecution of war criminals by the United States was ever taken seriously, McNamara would have been one of the leading candidates for the gallows. Instead, as we have been informed, the man died peacefully in his sleep, further evidence that, indeed, there is no justice in our world.
Butler Shaffer was Professor Emeritus at Southwestern University School of Law. He is the author of In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign Against Competition, 1918–1938, Calculated Chaos: Institutional Threats to Peace and Human Survival, and Boundaries of Order. His latest book is The Wizards of Ozymandias.

