Fog of War

We watched The Fog of War, a documentary based upon a series of interviews with Robert McNamara. The man's not exactly my favourite guy in the world, but he does win back some respect in these interviews.

A number of bits of that movie are stuck in mind. For example, I wonder if he had anyone in mind when he said, "If we can't persuade nations with comparable values of the merits of our cause, we'd better reexamine our reasoning." And the entire segment on the Cuban Missile Crisis was utterly chilling--possibly the most compelling account of that series of event that I've ever heard or read. I thought it really put contemporary security concerns in perspective--the worst of worst case terrorist scenarios is a faint shadow of the apocalypse that nearly struck in 1962.

(I know I just wrote the word "terrorist", but I'm not going to say anything about London right now, even though I could've concocted a pretty snazzy title for this post by somehow combining "Fog of War" and some statement about London's climate.)