Why We Fight

(2005)

★ 7.5 IMDb · 125 votes

Genres: Documentary, History

Year: 2005

Runtime: 98 мин

Country: Canada, Denmark

Director: Юджин Джареки

Cast: Chalmers Johnson, Joseph Cirincione, Gore Vidal, Charles Lewis, Richard Perle, William Kristol, John McCain, Ken Adelman, John Ashcroft, Усама бен Ладен

Plot

Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these questions.

He may have been the ultimate icon of 1950s 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 2004 with its incestuous entanglement of political, corporate, and Defense Department interests.