Why do we fight documentary

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Watch options. Storyline Edit. He may have been the ultimate icon of s conformity and postwar complacency, but Dwight D. Eisenhower was an iconoclast, visionary, and the Cassandra of the New World Order.

Upon departing his presidency, Eisenhower issued a stern, cogent warning about the burgeoning "military industrial complex," foretelling with ominous clarity the state of the world in with its incestuous entanglement of political, corporate, and Defense Department interests. It is nowhere written that the American empire goes on forever. Rated PG for disturbing war images and brief language. Did you know Edit.

Quotes Joseph Cirincione : In some ways, the military-industrial complex may become so pervasive that it is now invisible. User reviews Review. Top review. For all those interested in understanding a little better the motives behind wars in the last 60 years at minimum , this movie will show you different points of view about "why we fight" the original title of a US military propaganda of the past.

In the meantime, you'll also see a lot of facts yes, unquestionable facts backing up the presumption yielded at the last minutes Patriotism, Militarism, Corruption, False democracy, Lies, etc, etc. We are used to those.

This time, the topic is the military-industrial complex, something even a Republican Dwight Eisenhower warned about. Details Edit. Release date January United States. Sony Classics United States.

English Arabic. Box office Edit. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1 hour 38 minutes. There are other disillusioned people in the documentary, in particular Lt. Kwiatkowski, who resigned from the Pentagon because she witnessed military officers being vetoed by outside consultants whose loyalty was to the defense contractors who employed them.

One watches "Why We Fight," and nods, and sighs, and leaves. What it says should concern us, but apparently it does not. The film observes that some defense contracts are cleverly planned to spread the government wealth among as many states as possible; some weapons systems have suppliers in all 50 states, and woe to the elected official of either party who votes against them. Shouldn't it be obvious that a legislator who votes against government spending in his own district must have given the matter a lot of thought, and be courageous, and perhaps even correct?

That's a useful thought. But it's not news, and when documentaries like "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" contain fresh and shocking information, a film like "Why We Fight" is not very necessary. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Wilton Sekzer. William Solomon.

Richard Perle. Dwight Eisenhower. Chalmers Johnson. William Kristol. Charles Lewis. Reviews Preaching to the choir. Roger Ebert February 16, A scene from the documentary "Why We Fight," which argues that the United States is permanently on the edge of war because it ignored Eisenhower's warnings of a "vast military-industrial complex. Now streaming on:. Powered by JustWatch. Now playing. South of Heaven Sheila O'Malley. Bergman Island Tomris Laffly.

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