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The Road Not Taken

机译:没有走的路

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THIS BRILLIANT, extremely well-written book about a forgotten figure who was one of the most extraordinary and utterly unorthodox espionage agents in history contains a telling scene that encapsulates what went tragically wrong with the Vietnam War. The operative, Edward Lansdale, was visiting President John F. Kennedy's defense chief, Robert McNamara. The former president of Ford Motor, McNamara profoundly believed that everything could be managed by numbers (or what we today call "metrics"). McNamara had an IQ that could boil water, a personality that could freeze the tropics and a deep disdain for anyone he considered his intellectual inferior, which was almost everybody. Lansdale was given ten minutes—no more!—to advise McNamara on how the U.S. should deal with the growing communist insurgency in South Vietnam. The allotted time was a harbinger of how the meeting would go.
机译:这本辉煌的著作,写得非常出色,讲述了一个被遗忘的人物,他是历史上最杰出的,完全非正统的间谍活动之一,其中包含了一个生动的场景,概括了越南战争中悲惨的错误。特工爱德华·兰斯代尔(Edward Lansdale)正在拜访约翰·肯尼迪总统的国防部长罗伯特·麦克纳马拉(Robert McNamara)。福特汽车公司前总裁麦克纳马拉(McNamara)坚信,一切都可以通过数字(或今天称为“指标”)进行管理。麦克纳马拉(McNamara)的智商可以煮开水,性格可以使热带地区冻结,并且对他认为自己的智商低下的任何人(几乎每个人)都深表不屑。兰斯代尔(Lansdale)得到了十分钟的通知,没有更多!给麦克纳马拉(McNamara)建议美国如何应对越南南部日益增长的共产主义叛乱。分配的时间预示着会议的进行。

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    《Forbes》 |2018年第1期|14-14|共1页
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