Reference no: EM133019449

Source: The Fog of War documentary

1. What does McNamara mean by empathizing with the enemy? Should one empathize with one's enemy in order to better handle him/them?

2. can you still continue and/or need to continue to construct and stereotype our opponents as enemies? How is that true in national and in international politics?

3. Is it appropriate to see fellow citizens as enemies in a type of political and cultural warfare? How can you view the United States international enemies today?

4. How much of this portrayal is reality and how much is it a simplification or stereotyping of their motives and characters?

5. Should morals have a place in war? What does McNamara mean by "proportionality" and does proportionality matter or only whether you win or lose the war?

6. McNamara says about his role in the Second World War: LeMay said, "If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals." And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win? What do you think of McNamara's statement and question here? Why do you agree or disagree?