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I had no idea that piece of shit was associated with Ford at all.
That's how he got to DOD in the first place, by being the stereotypical "businessman who will clean up government." DOGE was not the first time politicans have talked about this kind of thing; it comes along every 20-30 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiz_Kids_(Department_of_Defen...
GWB was another one. The period seems to be shortening in the modern era.
He talks about it in The Fog of War (which is not going to make you change your ideia about him).
The Fog of War is definitely worth a watch. It was a fairly harrowing experience when I saw it. Actually, it is probably one of the hardest films I have watched. He clearly details the war crimes he presided over, and is open about the fact that he would have been tried as a war criminal had they lost.
He also pioneered the use of seat belts while at Ford. Which does make the morality-math a little more unusual.
To be clear, while McNamara was an advocate for seat belts, he wasn’t particularly instrumental in their development or adoption. In 1955 he introduced a paid option for Ford vehicles that included seat belts. But the option wasn’t popular with consumers, only 2% of new Fords the following year had it installed.
Saab was the first to include them as standard equipment in 1958, with Volvo introducing the modern 3-point seatbelts as standard equipment the following year. They remained unpopular in the US until after Ralph Nader’s 1965 book Unsafe At Any Speed which became a bestseller and prompted congress to pass the National Traffic & Motor Safety Act in 1966, and ultimately were made compulsory by states (presumably under a lot of lobbying pressure from insurers) starting in 1970.
> He also pioneered the use of seat belts while at Ford. Which does make the morality-math a little more unusual.
Is it unusual? A surviving driver from a car wreck needs a new car. Dead ones don't.
Lee Iococca from Chrysler wrote his seatbelt campaign can be countered by an anecdote of a person safely ejected into the grass and car falling off a cliff. I swear some brands are thriving on warm feelings.