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Why We Fight

2005·98 min

Why We Fight

Directed by Eugene Jarecki

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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.

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Chalmers Johnson

Self - CIA, 1967-1973

Joseph Cirincione

Self - Carnegie Endowment for Peace

Self - Author, "Imperial America"

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Alessandra Meyer

Producer

Susannah Shipman

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Étienne Sauret

Director of Photography

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Charles Lewis

Self - Center for Public Integrity

Self - Advisor, U.S. Dept. of Defense

William Kristol

Self - Project for the New American Century

Self - Senator (R/AZ)

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Self (archive footage)

Osama bin Laden

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

George H. W. Bush

Self (archive footage)

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Why We Fight (2005) is about 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.

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Eugene Jarecki directed Why We Fight (2005).

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