Fog of War – Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S McNamara

Fog of War – Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S McNamara

The change but my nasty little nasty middle size for the Vietnamese still doing most of the fighting and most of the time. But week after week, American casualty figures. Morocco, when the wars that she undertakes make no mistake the body. And we have declared war on tRNA and a great ship. If they’re soluble when they shouldn’t go down the drain. A cave maintainer and Fenner ask yourself what’s going to happen, all the other little nicer. Hi, I’m Lauren. Thing that I think bringing down why did out in America, out there about being able to let me go back one moment. In the Cuban Missile Crisis. At the end, I think we did put ourselves in the skin of the Soviets. In the case of Vietnam, we didn’t know them well enough to empathize and there was total misunderstanding. As a result. They believed that we had simply replaced the French as a colonial power. And we were seeking to subject the South and North Vietnam to our colonial interests, which is an absolutely absurd. And we, we, we saw Vietnam as an element of the Cold War. Not what they saw it as the Civil War. There aren’t many examples in which you bring two former enemies together at the highest levels and discuss what might have been. I formed a hypothesis that each of us could have achieved our objectives without the terrible loss of life. And I wanted to test that by going to Vietnam. The former Prime Minister of Vietnam, a wonderful man needs to say, You’re totally wrong. We were fighting for independence. You are fighting to enslave us. We always came to blows. That was noon on the first day. Do you mean to say it was not a tragedy for you? When you lost 3,000,400 thousand Vietnamese killed, which on our population base is the equivalent of 27 million Americans. What did you accomplish? You didn’t get any more than we were willing to give you at the beginning of the war, you could have had the whole **** thing. Independence, unification. Mr. Mack, Mary, he must never read a history book. Had, you know, when we weren’t pods of the Chinese and the Russians. Macnamara didn’t you know that? Don’t you understand that we have been fighting the Chinese for 1000 years. We were fighting for independence, and we would fight to the last man, and we were determined to do so. And no amount of bombing, not out of us pressure. Whatever stopped is what makes us audition. And we record of omniscience. We are the strongest nation in the world today. I do not believe we should ever apply to economic, political, and military power unilaterally. If we follow that rule, did Vietnam we wouldn’t have been there. None of our allies supported is not Japan, Germany and Britain and France. If we can’t persuade nations with comparable values of the marrying of our cars, we better re-examine or reason. Moroccan suffered their heaviest vehicle. They aren’t Vietnam last week, 543 killed and another 1247 were wounded and gospel the lives that their slaves, the US in the war so far to 18,239, not be enemies. What they want is for the weekend 520 Google and IBM Watson were not reported the primitive or those record gang lasers because 30 minutes. The brain of the Man. There, the North Vietnamese ring around wondering, to what extent did you feel that you were the author of stuff or that you were an instrument, things outside of your control? Well, I don’t think I felt either. I just felt that I was serving at the request of a president who had been elected by the American people. And it was my responsibility to try to help him to carry out the office, as he believed was the hadrosaur are people what is morally appropriate in a wartime environment? Let me give you an illustration. While I was secretary, we used what’s called Agent Orange in Vietnam. The chemical strips leaves off of trees. After the war is claim that that was a toxic chemical, and it killed many individuals, soldiers and civilians exposed to it. With those who we should need approval to use, Agent Orange, criminals, are they committing a crime against humanity? Let’s look at the law. Now. What kind of law do we have? It says these chemicals are acceptable for use in war and these chemicals or not. We don’t have clear definitions of that kind. I never no world would have authorized an illegal action. I’m not really sure I authorized agent orange. I don’t remember it, but it’s certainly occurred with the use of it occurred while I was secretary, Darwin Morrison, who was a Quaker. He was opposed to war, the violence or the killing. B, came to the Pentagon, asked himself with gasoline, burned himself to death, blow my office yielded child in his arms, his daughter. Passers-by.A