The Fog of War
ast year I had the opportunity to watch The Fog of War, the Errol Morris documentary interviewing Robert McNamara. I can't really comment on the Vietnam War since I grew up in Canada and was too young to understand much of what was going on at the time.
However, I heard an excerpt from the film recently in which McNamara made a haunting and prescient statement. He said,
We are the strongest nation in the world today. I do not believe that we should EVER apply that economic, political, or military power unilaterally. If we had followed that rule in Vietnam, we wouldn’t have been there. None of our allies supported us: not Japan, not Germany, not Britain or France. If we can’t persuade nations with comparable values of the merit of our cause we had better re-examine our reasoning.
What else can you add to that?
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