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For McNamara
The thrill of all that power
your secretarial work instilled
into your days, and your nights' slumber:
that you, alone, could command the number---
by the week, the day, the hour---
of young men chosen to kill and be killed,
in a place no one wanted to be.
And you sold it to us as paramount
to our nation's security.
Remember Saint Paul's eschatology:
that verse about giving account.
What will you have to explain . . . and to what degree?
Starward
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