Deja Viewing  Email Print  you went to the CIA today and said
u2018How is the situation today…?' I think they would say its
worse. You see it in the desertion rate, you see it in the
morale…you see it in the difficulty to recruit people…you see it
in the gradual loss of population control. gotten worse. Now
while we say this in private and not in public…there are facts
available that find their way into the press."  summation of the
war was delivered by the Secretary of Defense to the President
from Texas. It did not involve Donald Rumsfeld or George Bush.
The conversation took place on June 9, 1964 between Secretary of
Defense Robert McNamara and Lyndon B. Johnson.  so many other
aspects of The Fog of War , this passage is chilling in its
familiarity. A video autobiography of the life of Robert
McNamara, The Fog of War derives its name from a segment in
which McNamara uses the expression to explain the disorienting
effect of war on rational thought, as a way of explaining a
certain type of madness that overc