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This article appeared in the March 29, 2004 edition of The Nation.

March 10, 2004

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FOG OF WAR: NOT 'A REAL PASTING'

New York City

As one of the executive producers on The Fog of War, I was disappointed by Alexander Cockburn's essay on the film ["Beat the Devil," Feb. 9]. I'm a longtime admirer of Cockburn's work, and it gives me no joy to say that he has utterly missed the point of the film. Cockburn writes about the movie as if it unquestioningly accepts and endorses everything that Robert McNamara says, as if he's never heard of the terms "unreliable narrator" or "dramatic irony."

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About Alexander Cockburn

Alexander Cockburn has been The Nation's "Beat the Devil" columnist since 1984. He is the author or co-author of several books, including the best-selling collection of essays Corruptions of Empire (1987), and a contributor to many publications, from The New York Review of Books, Harper's Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly and the Wall Street Journal to alternative publications such as In These Times and the Anderson Valley Advertiser. With Jeffrey St. Clair, he edits the newsletter and radical website CounterPunch, which have a substantial world audience. more...

About Immanuel Wallerstein

Immanuel Wallerstein, Senior Research Scholar at Yale University, is the author, most recently, of The Decline of American Power: The U.S. in a Chaotic World (New Press). more...
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