my favorite movie of 2003:

The Fog of War

Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara

(Documentary. Directed by Errol Morris.)

It’s not often you get to see a former Secretary of Defense sum up the theory behind a disastrous war he led, then stare directly into the camera and admit: “We were wrong.” This extraordinary documentary by Errol Morris is mainly about the Vietnam War, but it goes back to World War II. Here’s Secretary Robert S. McNamara on the Cuban missile crisis:

At the end, we lucked out! It was luck that prevented nuclear war. … Rational individuals — Kennedy was rational, Khrushchev was rational, Castro was rational — rational individuals came that close to total destruction of their societies.

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