"We have access to information that you don't have." That's one way Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara (1916-2009) explained a Vietnam War that not everyone supported. The recently passed writer and cartoonist Jules Feiffer quipped at the time that McNamara's explanation reminded him of his "mother's answer when I asked her to give me a reason for an action or decision she couldn't be bothered to explain or defend. The reason she gave that ended all discussion was ‘Because.'"