Mcnamara and the “Fog of War”

Rebekka Carter 11/15/2012 McNamara and the Fog Of fight sometimes negotiation and quiescence is the only way to avoid catastrophe that could eradicate us all. The first lesson of the Fog of War, that McNamara gave was to empathize with your resistance. McNamara thought it was a mustiness and that is was important to put together ourselves into the enemys shoes. He discussed in the interview that later became a documentary, the possible serious consequences we could face as a nation if we didnt empathize with Cubans during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. We must try to put ourselves inside their skin and look at us through their eyes, undecomposed to understand the thoughts that lie behind their decisions and their actions, McNamara justified. If we could negotiate and settle, we might can trim something out to benefit both the U. S. , and the Soviet Union. During the Cuban missile Crisis, McNamara act to persuade President Kennedy not to press on and invade Cuba. He could give the president advice because he was a member of the presidents cabinet. Robert McNamara was the Secretary of defence in office. He persuaded him a massive with Tommy Thompson whom was the former U. S.Ambassador to Moscow. They gave them advice on two messages we standard from the Soviet Union. McNamara described this as a weighty message and a soft message. The soft message said they would remove the missiles from Cuba as long as we promised not to invade. On the other hand, Kennedy also received the hard message which basically revealed that if we pressed on and invaded Cuba,they would respond with massive soldiers force. McNamara stressed how important it was to empathize with Cuba,if we didnt the consequences could be a nuclear state of war holocaust. Kennedy ended up empathizing with them by responding to the first message.This action could of saved us from a possible Nuclear War and from devastation, disaster, and from loosing trillions of sincere American people. McNamara describes the family between empathy, morality, and war. He bring forwards that during war in cast to be fetching you shake up to see the way the enemy sees and try to make peace with them. From a moral stand point, do whats scoop out for the common good. Its surmount to make peace or at least negotiate and espouse to an agreement to avoid any consequences that could threaten innocent civilians. I think he believed more in peace and harmony than in war.It was best to just avoid it if possible and negotiate then avoid conflict. ulterior on in the documentary, McNamara describes the fire bombings of lacquerese cities. He argues is it moral to assimilate the lives of 100,000 of Japanese civilians in one night just to win the war. On top of burning the cities, Lemay wanted to drop a bomb. McNamara argued that proportionality was a guideline in war. We shouldnt overdue it just to win. We should hold it evened out with the enemy on casualties and civilian deaths. Lemay considered his actions to be thought immoral if they had lost.So judging from that Id say that if his side lost, then loosing that many people would have been for nothing. If they would of won, it would have been moral is the conclusion Im drawing from this. Is it ever legitimate to remark your countrys actions in a time of war? I think so yes, and I wouldnt consider it to be unpatriotic for disagreeing with the government. Freedom of public lecture is one thing our country is founded on and everyone can have their experience personal view or criticism. One can still have love for ones country and not agree with their policies or in this especial(a) case, war tactics.Some people may not be for war because of the innocent lives lost men,women, and children. Some people might especially be against nuclear war because of innocent lives and it just causes more danger and conflict. In my scene it is legitimate to argue or criticize about war or any other action a country carries ou t. This documentary undefended my eyes and changed the way I truly saw Nuclear War and the effects and consequences it can have. The Cuban Missile Crisis had very high stakes to cause not only a Nuclear War, but a Nuclear war Holocaust. With being struck with one bomb, there is a possibility we would of bombed Cuba back.I dont believe we would of surrendered. Other countries would of gotten involved and devastation and loss as of a result from this would have been very great. The fire bombings described in Japan was very disproportionate and unevenly scattered. Cities everywhere in Japan had different numbers of deaths and injuries. Lemay thought this had to be done in order to win the war, even though it was considered immoral. This documentary was an eye opener and it genuinely gave good insight on the key ways to being sure-fire in a war. McNamara called it The Rules of War.