Thursday, November 8, 2007

Fog of War and Path to War

Fog of War and Path to War are two of the more important movies that I've viewed for this class this whole semester. I say this because few movies shows the inside, political, aspects of the Vietnam War. McNamara gives us an extremely detailed history of how we got to Vietnam. And because of this it helped me better understand the reasons behind America entering the war and maybe why our leaders chose to do some of the things they did. Path of War also made me feel very sympathetic to Johnson's situation whereas before I really had some very negative views on him. So often we see our political leaders critized for every decision that they make that it becomes easy for one to be overly harsh and forget that these people making the decisisions are just that, people. They go through their own internal conflicts to try and decide what they think is best. Although they might sometimes not make the best decisions it makes one think what kind of choices you yourself would've made had you been in that position.

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