Disucssion Board: Presidents’ Foreign Policy Decisions

This week you will watch a video, titled  “The Most Dangerous Man In America  This video should be free through Kanopy – you should not have to pay to watch this. If you have trouble accessing it, then email your Professor immediately. 

The Most Dangerous Man isn’t a gangster or a terrorist, but rather he is a whistleblower, Daniel Ellsberg.  A whistleblower is someone who tells the truth about another’s illegal behavior.  In this instance Mr. Ellsberg worked for a military contractor, Rand Corporation. This business was responsible for a study of the Vietnam War, which concluded in 7,000 pages that president after president was told that the war in Vietnam was unwinnable, but each one of them continued to send thousands of troops and spend billions of dollars to keep communism from spreading.  Mr. Ellsberg was so horrified by what he read that he leaked the whole study to The New York Times.  Once you watch the film, answer the questions below in a discussion post.  If you use any other resources in your discussion post be sure to include  correct MLA citation format for

each source.Links to an external site. Additionally, this response needs to be your own, original thoughts. You may not use Artificial Intelligence to answer this post, if you do you will receive a zero. 

Questions: 

Summarize the film.

What shocked you most about the revelations in the Pentagon Papers?

Who should declare war, Congress or the President? And, why?