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Originally Posted by Morrigan_Dubh

I watched "The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara" last night.

It's basically a long, indepth, and very moving interview with Robert McNamara, who was the US Secretary of Defence during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.

The guy is 86 years old in the documentary (filmed in 2003) and on camera was still very sharp, articulate, and driven. The stock footage of World War 1 and 2 and Vietnam are interlaced with compelling interview footage (the man comes to the verge of tears on 2 or 3 occasions, but never looks away from the camera. He almost won the staring competition with me - it's hard to see an dignified old man in such an emotional state), as McNamara describes how close the world came to Nuclear war during the Bay of Pigs incident, and how the US fire bombed Tokyo - destroying over half of the city and its citizens in the process - and how the Lyndon Johnson pushed for the escalation of the Vietnam war. And admitting that if the allies had lost WW2, he would have been considered a war criminal.

Watch this film.

MORRIGAN: I always wanted to see this documentary!