The world is in the hands of the President everyday with sometimes only seconds of time to think, many acts can be made that most, many, some, or even none of the United States citizens will agree with. Many choices that Presidents make result in two endings; they either help the United States in the future or hurt the United States in the future. .
After watching the movie Fail Safe, many thoughts ran through my head. I would never want to be in that position to make a decision to take out a major city in my own country or start World War III. If the President takes out his own city then many lives will be lost and no war will start, let alone he will most likely be impeached. In another point of view, the president can try to destroy as much as Russia as he can in order to destroy their Nuclear weapons and end the war as soon as possible before nuclear destruction on the United States begins. This is a hard position to be put into, no matter what choice you take lives will be on the line and the president must make the choice that would save more lives.
The choice the President makes in Fail Safe, is to destroy his own city. He believes that in this manner he will save many more lives as to if he would have started World War III. The President puts a pilot of a bomber plane in a hard position in doing these crazy acts of insanity. The pilot is told orders to blow up a City where his wife and child is living. As he does these acts he ends up poisoning himself to die with his family below.
I can understand why the president would do such an act but I believe that it is unlawfully and he should have tried to destroy the other country before destroying his own. The USA is supposed to be known for their bravery and in this movie it did not show. USA still had a chance to destroy the USSR. .
If I was to ever be in the Presidents position to during this decision I believe I would have acted in a different manner.