{"id":508,"date":"2007-06-28T19:38:11","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T02:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bren.pintglass.org\/archives\/2007\/06\/28\/the-fog-of-war\/"},"modified":"2007-06-28T19:38:11","modified_gmt":"2007-06-29T02:38:11","slug":"the-fog-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/the-fog-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fog of War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently watched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonyclassics.com\/fogofwar\/\">The Fog of War<\/a>, which is a documentary about Robert McNamara. McNamara was the Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War. He was appointed by Kennedy and fired by Johnson, with whom he clashed. McNamara, prior to being the Secretary of Defense, was the first president of the Ford Motor Company outside the Ford family. Fascinating guy.<\/p>\n<p>The movie is essentially an extended interview with McNamara when he was 85 years old. It&#8217;s interspersed with archival footage, which is pretty interesting in its own right.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever been sort of confused about the politics surrounding the history of the Vietnam War, this movie won&#8217;t clear things up for you. You will, however, get a great dose of insight into one of the key players of that period. This is definitely on my &#8220;recommend&#8221; list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently watched The Fog of War, which is a documentary about Robert McNamara. McNamara was the Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War. He was appointed by Kennedy and fired by Johnson, with whom he clashed. McNamara, prior to being the Secretary of Defense, was the first president of the Ford Motor Company outside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ckgU-8c","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}