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Analyzing Robert Mcnamara's The Fog Of The Vietnam War

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As we send our troops into battle this hazy fog of dust and smoke rise up when they step into the unknown and it is scary. All of this emotion of why am I here, and am I here for the right reasons? The secretary of defense Robert McNamara should have been able to answer those questions before he shipped off anyone to Vietnam. Did Donald Rumsfeld ask the right questions before planning to ship soldiers to Iraq? I will be comparing these two men’s abilities to show emotion and my thoughts and emotions on it during two documentaries.
Identifying the many primary sources throughout the films is a task that caused me to pause the documentaries several times. Both of the documentaries shared important newspapers from the time periods. The big primary source integrated into both documentaries are videos of bombs being loaded into or being dropped from planes. Each documentary had short interview clips, pictures, memos, propaganda, and magazine articles as primary sources. …show more content…

A person was wearing a sign that read “bring our G.I.s home”. A picture or propaganda poster caught my attention during this documentary. This poster looked like McNamara in a tank. This struck strong emotions for me and kind of pissed me off. I was surprised that people would create such nasty things of a man trying to keep war out of our country. Than I thought of all the crap people talk about our president now for mistakes that have nothing to do with him. After I thought about this blame game it began to make sense. The American people have to blame someone when people are dying and or

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