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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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