Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara

     

Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara2003

Genre: Documentary, History, War
The Fog of War, the movie that finally won Errol Morris the best documentary Oscar, is a spellbinder. Morris interviews Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and finds a uniquely unsettling viewpoint on mu… more »


Robert McNamara:
LeMay said, "If we lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals". And I think he's right.

Robert McNamara:
He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals.

Robert McNamara:
LeMay recognised that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose, and not immoral if you win?

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