".WHY WE FIGHT, 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?
Thursday, 4 July 2013
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