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“Fog of War”">Fog of War”

By Nick Hodge | August 5, 2006

If you have broad­band, and a spare 2 hours to watch an excel­lent doc­u­ment­ary: I can highly recom­mend this one:

From wiki­pe­dia: The film depicts the life of Robert McNamara, United States Sec­ret­ary of Defense from 1961 to 1968, through the use of archival foot­age, White House record­ings, and most prom­in­ently, an inter­view of McNamara at the age of 85. The sub­ject mat­ter spans from McNamara’s work as one of the “Whiz Kids” dur­ing World War II and at Ford to his involve­ment in the Viet­nam War as the Sec­ret­ary of Defense under Pres­id­ents Kennedy and Johnson.

It is inter­est­ing how someone who was deeply involved in some of the most bru­tal parts of the mid-20th Cen­tury spent many years work­ing at the World Bank. Search­ing for atonement?

Fog of War.

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