If you watch this documentary, it is important for you to get past your personal feelings about McNamara and Johnson. If you can do that, this movie present some profoundly important ideas on a subject that you will find nowhere else. The movie is a singular opportunity to learn from one of the most notorious war-wagers in US history. Even if you hate him, how could you not be fascinated by his extremely unique hindsight? These 11 lessons are a rare opportunity - the instruction manual for avoiding future wars if we and our leaders listen. (Too bad CheneyRumsfeld refused to listen)

The galling outcome of this man's influence on and then instigation of a policy of killing people ( the Vietnamese deaths totalled nearly two million) while disregarding the vast intelligence and background of many firstclass military and long-standing foreign-service people high in the ranks of the State and Defense Departments simply cannot be forgotten nor forgiven, ever. The people advising him had been there,lived there, knew the nationalist purpose (not Communist take-over by force) of the Vietnamese public. He brazenly defied these advisers and went forward in designing the war, troops, bombing, and the completely failed policy of the US murdering our way to containing what he ignorantly saw as a threat to the US and to the West. Clearly a criminal, should have been tried and sentenced.Not really foggy at all.

Although much vilified through the 60s and 70s, McNamara emerges as a complex and fascinating character and a product of his time. This film does a great job of exposing the evils, horrors and excesses of war, and is a cautionary tale for future generations who would ever think that war is the only option.

Shameful, not very interesting. At least he recognized part of his mistakes in WWII, but he was not at the front. He tries to condone his participation in Vietnam were more than 50K USA soldiers died. Then he becomes president of the World Bank in order to reduce poverty in the world. Well, he was no good there either. The lesson for me is that people like power, and they want to maintain it as much as they can.

These are the Issues of our contemporary History. Anyone who is an adult will understand what's going on. And the unherald people who maintain peace in our world.

This is a very interesting documentary that takes the watcher through the second half of the 20th century in the USA and shows the watcher the effect that one man had on world history.