McNamara's 'FOG OF WAR'
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The documentary about the war concept of former Pentagon Master McNamara was more a Fog in the Brain of U.S. Presidents, U.S. Congress and Ministers of Wars than anything else.
We understand that the letting get in smoke millions of folks in Germany and Japan when destructing a lot of towns during WW II is understandable.
There was no reason whatsoever for those Nations to attack the world, the Jews and the integrity of ethics - and therefore the destruction of Germany and Japan would have been a solution. Even the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki can be justified. Never ever a perpetrator should blame his victims, if the play of forces goes the other way round.
McNamara was a master not only of Pentagon, but also of the Worldbank, Ford and some other nice places and he always made the same errors in reasoning. McNamara was the typical high Elite intellectual of USA, losing sight of commonsense in favour of absolute power just for one nation. Not much difference to Germany and Japan before the War----
Such University guys of zero intellect state: Power justifies any crime, if the Criminal would have been USA. So McNamara would never have allowed shooting on demonstrations against the Vietnam War, never, when at the same time, he was the master of War with JFK and Johnson for killing 3,4 million of Vietnamese and some Cambodians and other fine nations - even helping Pol Pot in his efforts just to destabilize Vietnam a bit more. If there would be a punishment by torturing to death, I could announce some very fine names of VIPs.
But the major lesson should be taken from VIETNAM WAR:
This extreme idiot with name McNamara, together with U.S. Congress, U.S. Governments and U.S. Presidents believed in the Vietnam War as being a question of a Domino Theory against Marxism.
Very late in his years, he found out that the Vietnamese understood nothing of Domino, but all of a Civil war, seeing the USA as aggressor to enslave after the French their land Vietnam.
Notice: Just one word between the idiotic presidents of USA and the Chief of State of Vietnam would have cleared the situation and prevented 58000 dead Americans and wide over 4 million of Asians.
But this is of no interest anymore today - much more of interest are the same errors GW Bush committed yesterday and Obama, in his "Yes I can" Idiocy of a adult child, taken by even lower IQ geniuses as a Hero, commits today:
Afghanistan
Just one word with the Taliban, throwing the aggressor USA out of its frontiers like before the Russians will clear: USA want peace and ethics in Afghanistan and Taliban want to maintain religion and their land intact. USA could give some promises to help the civilize Afghanistan and Taliban would renounce to Terror - and all would be fine. Only, Obama is by far too dull in understanding the clue of this report. And Americans don't even know where is Wall Street, Europe, Iraq, Afghanistan and their own brains.
Israel
Instead of punishing the Palestinians and 1500 million of Islamists for the crimes of Hitler, Israel could stop the settlement crimes, give the land to Palestine and get a guarantee for peace and non-violence. But the Israelis want, like the Americans, all the land of Palestine plus all the profits on Wall Street and influence in America, taking the world's savings away from Middle Class and be punished into the Mediterranean Sea. Whatever Israelis may do in the next future, the way out of deadly danger is to make good for their crimes, not the 2 States solution they prevented since 1945.
Iraq and Iran
For both, some nice discussions with mutual guarantees would have stopped any aggression. But instead, Obama plays the rotten cards of GW Bush, who made the Taliban and 9/11, destabilizes Middle East and gets an answer soon when half of the globe can't stand anymore the arrogance of the McNamara America. This totally crazy America made the Taliban and Saddam Hussein and helped him to kill one million Persians with CIA and Satellite assistance. But today, the worst atom power on this planet wants to dictate the same Persians, not to have a counter-power to atomic Israel - and for this, USA needs the stupidity of Bubble China and Oligarchic Putin Russia, two other atom powers without any ethics and commonsense, prepared to kill the planet 10 times, if need there is.
I could extend the matter on ecologic crimes of USA, on the Oil Spill matter between BP as the company that got allowance to do what they did and the Americans, that would kill the whole planet for a little bit of traffic before downfall to hell in collapses to come.
Or the Bluff with the controls on Hedge Funds, Investment Banks, bonuses for criminal and greedy U.S. bankers, but worst the lies about some Derivatives being set under control now, when 90 percent of that Junk still is overvalued in all Balance Sheets of all U.S. Governmental controlled funds of USA.
Well, McNamara just said that he felt for his lifetime rather innocent and his only fine wishes went in direction of only wanting all the best for US folks and the worst of other nations.
The best of USA has proved since 1945 to be a terrible burden and death Prize for the rest of Nations outside USA - but blindness seems to pay, before the complete downfall of this God's won Land in bankruptcy and misery and isolation, wished by the rest of world, will start to be a fact for all blinded Americans very soon.
Rene Delavy - Berlin and Bournemouth
Author of some books, reports and other fine analysis.