Documentary Hour. . . . . "Why We Fight"

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WHY WE FIGHT, the new film by Eugene Jarecki which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, is an unflinching look at the anatomy of the American war machine, weaving unforgettable personal stories with commentary by a “who’s who” of military and beltway insiders. Featuring John McCain, William Kristol, Chalmers Johnson, Gore Vidal, Richard Perle and others, WHY WE FIGHT launches a bipartisan inquiry into the workings of the military industrial complex and the rise of the American Empire.
Inspired by Dwight Eisenhower’s legendary farewell speech (in which he coined the phrase “military industrial complex”), filmmaker Jarecki (THE TRIALS OF HENRY KISSINGER) surveys the scorched landscape of a half-century’s military adventures, asking how – and telling why – a nation of, by, and for the people has become the savings-and-loan of a system whose survival depends on a state of constant war.

The film moves beyond the headlines of various American military operations to the deeper questions of why – why does America fight? What are the forces – political, economic, ideological – that drive us to fight against an ever-changing enemy?

“Frank Capra made a series of films during World War II called WHY WE FIGHT that explored America’s reasons for entering the war,” Jarecki notes. “Today, with our troops engaged in Iraq and elsewhere for reasons far less clear, I think it’s crucial to ask the questions: ‘Why are we doing what we are doing? What is it doing to others? And what is it doing to us?’”

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Comment by ☠Realize Lies☠ on December 3, 2009 at 8:00pm: Good call AZTECGHOST... I haven't actually read that, but I'll definitely look into it as well... I love a good read. =)

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Comment by ☠Realize Lies☠ on December 3, 2009 at 12:15pm: Right on, thanks for the link. I haven't seen that one yet... I've got like half a terabyte full of documentaries and amazingly enough this one isn't in the collection yet... I'll definitely look it up in the torrent world and see if I can't find a decent higher quality version of it. I'm a BIG documentary buff... I have like 3 sets of "world at war" style (between 20-30 episodes) doc's, as well as many other type, from oldskool to newer more 'eye appealing' films.

A few other films I'd recommend if you haven't seen them already is "Ghosts of Abu Ghraib" .... "Sir no Sir" ..... oh yeah, & "Taxi to the Dark Side" ... there's others as well, but I'd have to go grab the external HD, and hook it up, and turn it on, and browse the contents.... ... & I'm feelin kinda lazy at the moment, suckin on this ice cold alcoholic beverage - listening to some tunes, hehehe. =)