7 ("Belief and seeing are both often wrong") and No. 1 and 2 ("Empathize with your enemy" and "Rationality will not save us"), or for that matter No. His thoughts are organized as "11 Lessons From the Life of Robert McNamara," as extrapolated by Morris, and one wonders how the current planners of the war in Iraq would respond to lessons No. He speaks concisely and forcibly, rarely searching for a word, and he is not reciting boilerplate and old sound bites there is the uncanny sensation that he is thinking as he speaks. Guided sometimes by Morris, sometimes taking the lead, he talks introspectively about his life, his thoughts about Vietnam, and, taking Morris where he would never have thought to go, of his role in planning the firebombing of Japan, including a raid on Tokyo that claimed 100,000 lives. McNamara was 85 when the interviews were conducted - a fit and alert 85, still skiing the slopes at Aspen. Whether this invention results in better interviews is impossible to say, but it does have the uncanny result that the person on the screen never breaks eye contact with the audience.
He eventually spent 20 hours peering into Morris' "Interrotron," a video device that allows Morris and his subjects to look into each other's eyes while also looking directly into the camera lens.
#THE FOG OF WAR TV#
McNamara agreed to talk with Morris for an hour or so, supposedly for a TV special.
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