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According to Morris, McNamara emerges from The Fog of War neither as the devil that some claimed he was, nor as a man free from responsibility for great loss of life...
...There’s a deep desire to see Robert McNamara as Satan incarnate,” Morris said, alluding to the fact that McNamara headed the Pentagon during the early years of Vietnam and failed to denounce the war for decades after leaving office...
...Morris’ view of McNamara is not one-sided...
...when questioned by Morris in the film, McNamara explicitly says that he was not responsible for bringing the United States into Vietnam—a war that Morris fiercely opposed—nor for keeping the country entrenched in the conflict...
...Rather, McNamara puts the blame on President Lyndon B. Johnson, a figure who does not come across flatteringly in Morris’ documentary. Morris unearthed audio archives for this film that present Johnson as a belligerent leader who was consumed by the domino theory (the image of dominoes falling across a map of southeast Asia recurs throughout the film) and was determined to win the conflict before it had even started...