That's honestly all I could think of at the end of Path to War. I loved, loved, LOVED this movie! We've watched various movies on the Vietnam War but I think I finally understood what a big mess we'd gotten ourselves into after watching this movie. Did anyone else notice how many times Johnson asked his advisers "What do we do now?" He obviously had absolutely NO CLUE how to deal with the situation because it only seemed to be getting from bad to worse. We made no effort to understand the Vietnamese or their tactics. We made over-confident, zealous decisions and only realized the repercussions AFTER it was too late and thousands of people had died.
Was McNamara good or bad? I don't think there's an answer to this. He was a genius, no doubt but he made some blatantly wrong decisions concerning the Vietnam War and he seemed to be well aware of it by the end. I actually felt so frustrated during the movie because it was obvious we had ample opportunities to pull out before things got out of hand but we chose to prolong the war. LBJ made several wrong decisions which led to years of misery. Why did he not listen to Ball and Clifford? Why was he so influenced by McNamara? Why was McNamara so adamant on going on with the war?
If only we'd stopped ourselves in time...
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