O'ttiz yillik to'plangan aybdorlikdan xalos bo'lish va bir vaqtning o'zida o'zini himoya qilish uchun MakNamara Kennedi va Jonson prezidentliklari davrida (1961-8) Vetnam urushini boshqargan odamning ichki hikoyasini taklif qiladi. Uning urush dahshatining o'zi ham, urushga qarshi harakatning javobi ham bu sobiq Garvard dahosi va Ford Motor Company bosh direktorini gapirishga undadi. Ammo Vetnam urushiga bo'lgan salbiy munosabat, urushning o'zidan ko'ra, MakNamarani autsayderlarga elita qaror qabul qilish dunyosiga qarashga imkon berdi.
Maknamaraning filmi va adabiy xotirasi, men qo'rqamanki, bu beadablik va nafratni kuchaytiradi. O'lgan askarlar yoki tinch aholining ota-onalari, Vyetnam, Amerika va Iroq, 1966 yilda Maknamara "Vyetnamdagi siyosiy maqsadlarimizga harbiy yo'l bilan erisha olishimizga tobora ko'proq shubha bilan qaragan" degan stsenariyni o'qib, qanday his qilishdi? anglatadi.' Shunga qaramay, u davom etadi, "bu mening Vetnam siyosatini shakllantirishdagi ishtirokimni kamaytirmadi".
Vietnam was ‘McNamara’s War’ as much as Iraq is Rumsfeld’s. But thanks to the movie, we know that McNamara has a strong emotional side – unlike Rummy, whose distorted haiku speech and irritable manner create the image of a thick-skinned executive.
McNamara sensed that his soul was at stake, but the glimmers of humane feelings that he allowed himself to acknowledge confronted a stronger, deeper commitment to servicing power, an ‘obligation’ that vitiated his ability to see right and wrong.
He also owed the President his business assessment: the Vietnam War was unprofitable. Ironically, McNamara used this formula to arrive at his moral judgment: unprofitable means wrong. The brilliant accountant and business visionary, however, could not see demarcate clear moral lines between his ‘logic of figures’ and life and death.
LeMey, o'z so'zlariga ko'ra, psixopatik qotil, 1962 yilgi raketa inqirozida Kuba va Sovet Ittifoqiga qarshi yadroviy qurol ishlatishga ishtiyoqmand odam, Ikkinchi Jahon urushi paytida o'z uchuvchilari hayotini xavf ostiga qo'yishdan tortinmagan qo'mondon edi. Ularni pastroq balandliklarda uchib, aniqligini oshirish uchun havoga qarshi va qiruvchi hujumga duchor qilish orqali.
McNamara presents himself as a moral man. Among his axioms of faith was the assumption that the United States undertook overseas actions only for noble purposes. Through this obfuscating lens, he could not – and cannot — see himself as an imperialist. Since he served the elected president of a democracy, how could he possibly make imperial policies?
U kitob yozib, filmda suratga tushganidan xursandman. Uning shaxsiy guvohligi o'tmishdagi yolg'onni dramatiklashtiradi va hozirgi avlod vakillari Bushning Iroq haqidagi barcha da'volariga juda shubha bilan qarashlari kerak.
Darhaqiqat, u hanuzgacha "Amerika Qo'shma Shtatlari Vetnamda sakkiz yil davomida yaxshi va halol sabablar uchun ... xavfsizligimizni himoya qilish, totalitar kommunizm tarqalishining oldini olish va shaxsiy erkinlik va siyosiy demokratiyani rivojlantirish uchun kurashdi" deb ta'kidlaydi.
McNamara might write a guide book on the morality of power – an oxymoron? He simply blurred distinctions between intentions and poor war strategy. As Defense Secretary for seven years he simply ignored the incongruities between Washington’s trite expression of noble goals and the bestiality in Vietnam ‘required’ to achieve them. He pressed on, as he admits ‘ravaging a beautiful country and sending young Americans to their death year after year, because they [the war planners] had no other plan.’
Ha, jasorat yo'q! Yuqori hukumat amaldorlari ularni izolyatsiya qiladigan intervensiya mantig'ini qo'llaydilar, ular Vyetnam yoki Iroqdagi shaharlarni bombardimon qilish missiyasini buyurishdan oldin berishlari va javob berishlari kerak bo'lgan savollar o'rtasida devor o'rnatadilar.
In his book, McNamara strives for grace, citing T.S. Eliot’s ‘Four Quartets’: ‘And last the rending pain of reenactment/ Of all that you have done and been; the shame/ Of motives late revealed, and the awareness/ Of things ill done and done to others’ harm/ Which once you took for exercise of virtue.’
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