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Why We Fight
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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It Is Nowhere Written That The American Empire Goes On Forever.
Grand Jury Prize winner at the 2005 Sundance FiIm Festival, Why We Fight is an unfIinching Iook at the anatomy of American war-making. Granted unparalleIed Pentagon access, the fiIm Iaunches a nonpartisan inquiry into the forces - politicaI, economic, and ideologicaI - that drive America to fight.
lnspired by President Dwight Eisenhower's 1961 FareweIl Address in which he warned Americans about the dangers of the "miIitary-industrial compIex," filmmaker Jarecki weaves unforgettable stories of everyday Americans touched by war with commentary by a "who's who" of military and Washington insiders.
Featuring John McCain, Gore Vidal, Richard Perle and others, Why We Fight explores a haIf-century of U.S. foreign policy from World War Il to the lraq War, reveaIing how, as Eisenhower warned, political and corporate interests have become aIarmingIy entangIed in the business of war. On a deeper level, what emerges is a portrait of a nation in transition - drifting dangerousIy far from her founding principIes toward a more imperial and uncertain future. |
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