Rowhouse Logic - Breathtaking Inanity

Since David is on a bit of a Robert McNamara kick, I thought I would recommend Errol Morris’ documentary The Fog of War which is a really nice piece of work. I’ll have to ask him to know for sure, but I suspect David may have rented it recently. As David points out, McNamara suggests, in the movie, that the reason the United States succeeded in the Cuban Missile Crisis but failed in the Vietnam War was that its leaders fully understood the motivations and goals of their adversary in the former but did not in the latter. Interesting stuff regardless of how you feel about McNamara himself. I discussed this in more detail here.

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