I think its an interesting pivot, i also think their internal polling must look pretty bad. And when the numbers enter a nose dive its very hard to make the story anything else apart from the bad numbers.
He was dead when Burns made the Vietnam War doco, I definitely think he had regrets but I think there is a little bit of the Curtis Lemay in there as well. I think McNamara would say at some level conflict with the Soviets was an inevitable part of great power politics.
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